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14%OFFDaniel Defoe - Robinson Crusoe - 9781857159189 - 9781857159189
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Robinson Crusoe

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Description for Robinson Crusoe hardcover. A series with silk-ribbon markers and headbands, gold stamping on front and spine, and the original colour illustrations on the jackets. This 1968 version of Defoe's classic aimed to make the original text more accessible to young readers. The engravings are reproduced from a 19th-century edition. Series: Everyman's Library Children's Classics. Num Pages: 409 pages, b&w engravings. BIC Classification: YFA. Category: (JC) Children's (6-12). Dimension: 213 x 165 x 29. Weight in Grams: 696.
Defoe's most celebrated story of Crusoe's shipwreck, his resourcefulness and ingenuity in his soliatry life on a desert island and his rescue of Man Friday has been abridged and retold many times since its publication (in two volumes) in 1719. It even appeared recently in graphic-novel form. In 1968 Kathleen Lines determined to make the original text more accessible to young readers by breaking Defoe's original, continuous narrative into chapters, slightly cutting Crusoe's long meditations, and compressing the relevant bits of THE FARTHER ADVENTURES into a neat Epilogue, so that readers learn what happened to Friday. The evocative engravings are ... Read more

Product Details

Format
Hardback
Publication date
1993
Publisher
Childrens Classics
Condition
New
Series
Everyman's Library Children's Classics
Number of Pages
409
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781857159189
SKU
9781857159189
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About Daniel Defoe
Daniel Defoe was born in London in 1660. He worked briefly as a hosiery merchant, then as an intelligence agent and political writer. His writings resulted in his imprisonment on several occasions, and earned him powerful friends and enemies. During his lifetime Defoe wrote over two hundred and fifty books, pamphlets and journals and travelled widely in both Europe and ... Read more

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