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Robinson Crusoe
Daniel Defoe
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Description for Robinson Crusoe
Paperback. This new edition of Defoe's masterpiece includes a lively introduction by Tom Keymer, full notes and useful appendices, including a chronology of the action of the story and Defoe's most sustained commentary on it. Series: Oxford World's Classics. Num Pages: 384 pages, one map. BIC Classification: FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 195 x 129 x 20. Weight in Grams: 270.
'I made him know his Name should be Friday, which was the Day I sav'd his Life...I likewise taught him to say Master' Robinson Crusoe's seafaring adventures are abruptly ended when he is shipwrecked, the solitary survivor on a deserted island. He gradually creates a life for himself, building a house, cultivating the land, and making a companion from the native whose life he saves. Daniel Defoe's enthralling story-telling and imaginatively detailed descriptions have ensured that his fiction masquerading as fact remains one of the most famous stories in English literature. On one ... Read more
'I made him know his Name should be Friday, which was the Day I sav'd his Life...I likewise taught him to say Master' Robinson Crusoe's seafaring adventures are abruptly ended when he is shipwrecked, the solitary survivor on a deserted island. He gradually creates a life for himself, building a house, cultivating the land, and making a companion from the native whose life he saves. Daniel Defoe's enthralling story-telling and imaginatively detailed descriptions have ensured that his fiction masquerading as fact remains one of the most famous stories in English literature. On one ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Oxford University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
384
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Series
Oxford World's Classics
Condition
New
Weight
269g
Number of Pages
384
Place of Publication
Oxford, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780199553976
SKU
V9780199553976
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Ref
99-29
About Daniel Defoe
Thomas Keymer has edited Richardson's Pamela and Fielding's Joseph Andrews and Shamela for OWC, and Tom Jones for Penguin. His books include Sterne, the Moderns, and the Novel (OUP, 2002) and The Cambridge Companion to English Literature 1740-1830 (2004), co-edited with Jon Mee.
Reviews for Robinson Crusoe
Thomas Keymer provides a splendid introduction and richly explanatory endnotes (co-written with James Kelly
Adam Potkay, Recent Studies in the Restoration and Eighteenth Century
Adam Potkay, Recent Studies in the Restoration and Eighteenth Century