Author: Daniel DefoePublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
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The Life and Adventures of Robinson Crusoe (1808).
Author: Daniel DefoeThe Life and Adventures of Robinson Crusoe (1808)
Author: Даниэль ДефоPublisher: Litres
ISBN: 5040838867
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 718
Book Description
The Life and Adventures of Robinson Crusoe
Author: Daniel DefoePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Adventure and adventurers
Languages : en
Pages : 240
Book Description
The Life and Adventures of Robinson Crusoe (1808)
Author: Daniel DefoePublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 380
Book Description
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, lived afterwards 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.I had two elder brothers, one of which was lieutenant-colonel to an English regiment of foot in Flanders, formerly commanded by the famous Colonel Lockhart, and was killed at the battle near Dunkirk against the Spaniards. What became of my second brother I never knew, any more than my father or mother did know what was become of me.
The Life and Adventures of Robinson Crusoe (1808)
Author: Daniel DefoePublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 380
Book Description
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, lived afterwards 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.I had two elder brothers, one of which was lieutenant-colonel to an English regiment of foot in Flanders, formerly commanded by the famous Colonel Lockhart, and was killed at the battle near Dunkirk against the Spaniards. What became of my second brother I never knew, any more than my father or mother did know what was become of me.
The Life and Adventures of Robinson Crusoe
Author: Daniel DefoePublisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN: 9781726216074
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 316
Book Description
Robinson Crusoe is a novel by Daniel Defoe, first published on 25 April 1719. The first edition credited the work's protagonist Robinson Crusoe as its author, leading many readers to believe he was a real person and the book a travelogue of true incidents. Epistolary, confessional, and didactic in form, the book is presented as an autobiography of the title character (whose birth name is Robinson Kreutznaer)-a castaway who spends 28 years on a remote tropical desert island near Trinidad, encountering cannibals, captives, and mutineers, before ultimately being rescued. The story has been thought to be based on the life of Alexander Selkirk, a Scottish castaway who lived for four years on a Pacific island called "Más a Tierra," now part of Chile, which was renamed Robinson Crusoe Island in 1966.
The Adventures of Robinson Crusoe
Author: Daniel DefoePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Castaways
Languages : en
Pages : 524
Book Description
A violent storm at sea destroys Robinson Crusoe's ship. He alone survives and is cast ashore on a deserted island. Crusoe must summon all his strength and intelligence to survive and flourish against impossible odds. This is an amazing tale of a young man who overcomes loneliness, tames wild animals, battles ferocious cannibals and dangerous mutineers in a twenty-four year struggle to stay alive!
The Little Robinson Crusoe
Author: Daniel DefoePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Castaways
Languages : en
Pages : 204
Book Description
The Life and Adventures of Robinson Crusoe
Author: The Cambridge Companion to ‘Robinson Crusoe'
Author: John RichettiPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108609287
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 271
Book Description
An instant success in its own time, Daniel Defoe's The Adventures of Robinson Crusoe has for three centuries drawn readers to its archetypal hero, the man surviving alone on an island. This Companion begins by studying the eighteenth-century literary, historical and cultural contexts of Defoe's novel, exploring the reasons for its immense popularity in Britain and in its colonies in America and in the wider European world. Chapters from leading scholars discuss the social, economic and political dimensions of Crusoe's island story before examining the 'after life' of Robinson Crusoe, from the book's multitudinous translations to its cultural migrations and transformations into other media such as film and television. By considering Defoe's seminal work from a variety of critical perspectives, this book provides a full understanding of the perennial fascination with, and the enduring legacy of, both the book and its iconic hero.