by Daniel Defoe · Penguin Classics · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780140430073
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«Robinson Crusoe» is the adventure novel by Daniel Defoe, published by Penguin Classics in paperback (320 pages, in English).
Robinson Crusoe is shipwrecked and finds himself alone on a desert island, far from shipping routes. With patience and ingenuity, he turns the place into a home and learns to live in solitude. The novel follows his struggle for survival and the solutions he finds, until the appearance of another person changes his life.
Work originally published in 1719, first instalment of the Robinson Crusoe series. This edition, edited by Angus Ross, is the abridged version.
For readers of classics and adventure and for those seeking survival stories; recommended reading from age 14.
Daniel Defoe was an English writer, journalist, merchant and spy. He is famous for his novels Robinson Crusoe (1719), Moll Flanders (1722) and Roxana: The Fortunate Mistress (1724). He has been seen as one of the earliest proponents of the English novel, and helped to popularise the form in Britain with others such as Aphra Behn and Samuel Richardson.
