Robinson Crusoe
Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe is a novel published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform on May 9, 2017. This edition spans 278 pages and is presented in English. The book recounts the life and adventures of Robinson Crusoe, an English mariner who survives a shipwreck and finds himself stranded on a deserted island for 28 years. Throughout his time on the island, he encounters various challenges and individuals, including Native Americans and mutineers, ultimately leading to his rescue.
Readers will discover a fictional autobiography that employs a “false document” narrative style, providing a realistic frame for Crusoe’s extraordinary experiences. The story explores themes of survival and isolation, as well as the interactions between Crusoe and the diverse characters he meets. This edition of Robinson Crusoe offers a classic exploration of literature and fiction, reflecting on the human spirit’s resilience in the face of adversity.
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The Life and Strange Surprising Adventures of Robinson Crusoe (of York, Mariner Who lived Eight and Twenty Years all alone in an un-inhabited Island on the Coast of America, near the Mouth of the Great River of Oroonoque; Having been cast on Shore by Shipwreck, where in all the Men perished but Himself. With An Account how he was at last as strangely deliver’d by Pyrates) is a novel by Daniel Defoe, first published in 1719 and sometimes regarded as the first novel in English. The book is a fictional autobiography of the title character, an English castaway who spends 28 years on a remote tropical island near Venezuela, encountering Native Americans, captives, and mutineers before being rescued. This device, presenting an account of supposedly factual events, is known as a “false document” and gives a realistic frame story.
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