Editions

Robinson Crusoe

  • Imprint: Vintage Classics

  • ISBN: 9780099511847

  • Length: 272  Pages

  • Dimensions: 198mm x 17mm x 129mm

  • Weight: 192g

  • RRP: £5.99

Robinson Crusoe

Discover the legendary story of a marine adventurer shipwrecked on a desert island.

Robinson Crusoe runs away from home to join the navy. After a series of adventures at sea, he is shipwrecked in a devastating storm, and finds himself alone on a remote desert island. He remains there many years, building a life for himself in solitude, until the day he discovers another man's footprint in the sand...

‘Robinson Crusoe has a universal appeal, a story that goes right to the core of existence’ Guardian

  • Imprint: Vintage Classics

  • ISBN: 9780099511847

  • Length: 272  Pages

  • Dimensions: 198mm x 17mm x 129mm

  • Weight: 192g

  • RRP: £5.99

Reviews

  • Never since childhood have I been so thoroughly immersed in a book

    Jim Crace, Financial Times

  • An 18th-century reader, raised on a high-minded diet of elegy and pastoral, must have felt stunned on first encountering the jagged prose of a Daniel Defoe, with its street-wise populism and delight in the commonplace

    Terry Eagleton

  • Robinson Crusoe has a universal appeal, a story that goes right to the core of existence

    Simon Armitage, Guardian

  • Defoe should surely be credited with inventing the English novel

    Mail on Sunday

  • Defoe was an imaginative genius

    John Carey, Sunday Times

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About the Author

Daniel Defoe

Daniel Defoe (c.1660-1731), one of the most famous writers in English literature, was born in London, the son of James Foe, a butcher. It was Daniel who changed his name to De Foe or Defoe in about 1705. He was interested in politics and opposed King James II. After the Glorious Revolution in 1688 and William III was on the throne, Defoe became one of his personal friends. He became a writer for the government and a satircal writer on various social issues of the time. He turned to full time writing after hearing the inspirational story of a sailor who was rescued after living alone on a desert island in the Pacific, the result being his first novel ROBINSON CRUSOE. Several other adventure stories followed, including MOLL FLANDERS.

Daniel Defoe

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