Robinson Crusoe His Life and Strange Surprising Adventures
, by Defoe, Daniel; Lines, Kathleen; Linton, W.J.Note: Supplemental materials are not guaranteed with Rental or Used book purchases.
- ISBN: 9780679428190 | 0679428194
- Cover: Hardcover
- Copyright: 11/2/1993
This classic story of a shipwrecked mariner on a deserted island is perhaps the greatest adventure in all of English literature. Fleeing from pirates, Robinson Crusoe is swept ashore in a storm possessing only a knife, a box of tobacco, a pipe-and the will to survive. His is the saga of a man alone: a man who overcomes self-pity and despair to reconstruct his life; who painstakingly teaches himself how to fashion a pot, bake bread, build a canoe; and who, after twenty-four agonizing years of solitude, discovers a human footprint in the sand... Consistently popular since its first publication in 1719, Daniel Defoe's story of human endurance in an exotic, faraway land exerts a timeless appeal. The first important English novel,Robinson Crusoehas taken its rightful place among the great myths of Western civilization. From the Paperback edition.