by Daniel Defoe · Holt, Reinhart, Winston · tapa dura · ISBN 9788476727638
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«Robinson Crusoe» is the adventure novel by Daniel Defoe published by Holt, Reinhart, Winston in hardback (252 pages).
Robinson Crusoe, a sailor from York, is shipwrecked and spends twenty-eight years alone on a desert island. The novel, narrated as an autobiography of the protagonist, tells of his struggle to survive, his daily life on the island, and his encounters with cannibals, captives, and mutineers.
It is the first instalment of the «Robinson Crusoe» series. The original work was published on 25 April 1719 and is considered a landmark in the origin of realistic fiction.
For young readers and lovers of adventure classics; it often appears in school reading lists and in children's and young adult collections.
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.
