Robinson Crusoe

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Robinson Crusoe

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ISBN: 9780141439822
author: Daniel Defoe
publishing house: Penguin Classics
publication date: 2003 -4
series: Penguin Classics
binding: Paperback
price: USD 9.00
number of pages: 288

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This classic story of a shipwrecked mariner on a deserted island is perhaps the greatest adventure in all of English literature. Fleeing from pirates, Robinson Crusoe is swept ashore in a storm possessing only a knife, a box of tobacco, a pipe-and the will to survive. His is the saga of a man alone: a man who overcomes self-pity and despair to reconstruct his life; who painstakingly teaches himself how to fashion a pot, bake bread, build a canoe; and who, after twenty-four agonizing years of solitude, discovers a human footprint in the sand... Consistently popular since its first publication in 1719, Daniel Defoe's story of human endurance in an exotic, faraway land exerts a timeless appeal. The first important English novel, "Robinson Crusoe has taken its rightful place among the great myths of Western civilization.

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