Robinson Crusoe (The Children's Classics)
by Daniel Defoe
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The diary of an Englishman shipwrecked for almost thirty years on a small isolated island where, using wit and industry, he manages to build life anew.Tags
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It's been some time since I've read this, but I remember enjoying it very much. I love to read about ingenuity in survival tales, and this one is packed with adventure, too.
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Daniel Defoe was born Daniel Foe in London, England on September 13, 1660. He changed his surname in 1703, adding the more genteel "De" before his own name to suggest a higher social standing. He was a novelist, journalist, and political agent. His writings covered a wide range of topics. His novels include Robinson Crusoe, Moll Flanders, Roxana, show more Captain Singleton, and Colonel Jack. He wrote A Tour Thro' the Whole Island of Great Britain, which is an important source of English economic life, and ghost stories including A True Relation of the Apparition of One Mrs. Veal. He also wrote satirical poems and pamphlets and edited a newspaper. He was imprisoned and pilloried for his controversial work, The Shortest Way with the Dissenters, which suggested that all non-Conformist ministers be hanged. He died on April 24, 1731. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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- Canonical title
- Robinson Crusoe (The Children's Classics) (The Children's Classics)
- Original publication date
- 1910 (this abridgement) (this abridgement)
- People/Characters
- Robinson Crusoe; Friday
- Related movies
- The Adventures of Robinson Crusoe (1954); Robinson Crusoe (1997); Crusoe (2008)
- First words
- I was born in the year 1632, in the city of York, of a good family, though not of that country, my father being a foreigner, of Bremen, who settled first at Hull: he got a good estate by merchandise, and leaving off his trade... (show all), lived afterward at York; from whence he had married my mother, whose relations were named Robinson, a very good family in that country, and from whom I was called Robinson Kreutznaer; but, by the usual corruption of words in England, we are now called, nay, we call ourselves, and write our name, Crusoe; and so my companions always called me.
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- (Click to show. Warning: May contain spoilers.)I may write later of all these things.
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- Abridged/edited. Please do not combine with parent book.
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