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1HugoDumas
For those interested in the 1840 DLE of Robinson Crusoe with 300 illustrations by Grandville here is a digital image of the French edition published in 1840. I notice this is still available after about 18 months from EP despite a low printing (400). Anybody get this yet?
http://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015078558718
http://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015078558718
2jroger1
I have one, Skochkin, and I love it. It is practically a twin to the Grandville edition of "Gulliver" that they did earlier. Grandville's illustrations are both numerous and fabulous. The font is rather small but easy enough to read. I can recommend both very highly.
3HugoDumas
>2 jroger1: reading it now and think it is a fabulous book. Read the boy's version as a child. Sad to see it being sold at $495 on eBay now. I guess EP never enlarges the image; the font does look small. This is one edition I wish EP had printed the size of those lovely 1888 Routledge DLE books by Hugo and Dumas.
4HugoDumas
>2 jroger1: please clarify. Is the 1840 version the extended adventures of Robinson Crusoe? It is considerably longer than my traditional version, and does not appear to be due to the number of illustrations.
5jroger1
>4 HugoDumas:
I'm not sure what you mean by "extended adventures." The title is "The Life and Adventures of Robinson Crusoe," and nothing on the title page suggests that it is abridged. With 486 pages of small print, I would say it is the complete novel. The story I read as a kid wasn't this long, so it must have been abridged or dumbed down.
There are no chapter divisions and hence no table of contents, so I can't tell if anything has been added or deleted.
I'm not sure what you mean by "extended adventures." The title is "The Life and Adventures of Robinson Crusoe," and nothing on the title page suggests that it is abridged. With 486 pages of small print, I would say it is the complete novel. The story I read as a kid wasn't this long, so it must have been abridged or dumbed down.
There are no chapter divisions and hence no table of contents, so I can't tell if anything has been added or deleted.
7jroger1
>4 HugoDumas: >6 supercell:
Thanks, Supercell, I did not know about the sequels. I have not yet read the Easton (1840) edition, but, if it will help answer your questions, here are the last two paragraphs:
"To conclude; having staid near four months in Hamburgh, I came from thence overland to the Hague, where I embarked in the packet, and arrived in London the tenth of January 1705, having been gone from England ten years and nine months.
"And here, resolving to harass myself no more, I am preparing for a longer journey than all these, having lived seventy-two years a life of infinite variety, and learnt sufficiently to know the value of retirement, and the blessing of ending our days in peace."
Thanks, Supercell, I did not know about the sequels. I have not yet read the Easton (1840) edition, but, if it will help answer your questions, here are the last two paragraphs:
"To conclude; having staid near four months in Hamburgh, I came from thence overland to the Hague, where I embarked in the packet, and arrived in London the tenth of January 1705, having been gone from England ten years and nine months.
"And here, resolving to harass myself no more, I am preparing for a longer journey than all these, having lived seventy-two years a life of infinite variety, and learnt sufficiently to know the value of retirement, and the blessing of ending our days in peace."
9jroger1
>6 supercell: >4 HugoDumas:
Having now read the Wikipedia entry for "The Farther Adventures of Robinson Crusoe," I am satisfied that the 1840 edition combines it with the original. One would think they might say so somewhere, but perhaps it was commonplace in those days to consider the two stories as parts 1 and 2 of the same novel (much like Don Quixote).
Having now read the Wikipedia entry for "The Farther Adventures of Robinson Crusoe," I am satisfied that the 1840 edition combines it with the original. One would think they might say so somewhere, but perhaps it was commonplace in those days to consider the two stories as parts 1 and 2 of the same novel (much like Don Quixote).
11HugoDumas
>2 jroger1: it is obvious from the pictures I posted above, that you have the complete Robinson Crusoe, since many of the pictures do not correspond to the traditional novel.
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