by Daniel Defoe · Plutón Ediciones · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788417079468
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«Robinson Crusoe» is the adventure novel by Daniel Defoe, published by Plutón Ediciones in paperback (544 pages, bilingual Spanish-English edition).
Novel narrated in the first person by an English sailor who, after shipwrecking, spends twenty-eight years on a desert island. Robinson Crusoe must fend for himself to secure shelter, food and company; it is a survival story that combines adventure with reflection on solitude, faith and human nature.
It belongs to the Clásicos Bilingües collection from Plutón Ediciones (no. 1), with a translation by Benjamin Briggent. It includes vocabulary and reading comprehension exercises.
For those learning English: the text appears in Spanish and English page by page, and the edition's exercises reinforce comparative reading.
Daniel Defoe was an English writer, journalist, merchant and spy. He is famous for his novels Robinson Crusoe (1719), Moll Flanders (1722) and Roxana: The Fortunate Mistress (1724). He has been seen as one of the earliest proponents of the English novel, and helped to popularise the form in Britain with others such as Aphra Behn and Samuel Richardson.
