Name: Robinson Crusoe
SKU: 61578793
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Author: Daniel Defoe
ISBN: 9781544860749

Type

Physical Book

Author

Daniel Defoe

Illustrated by

Gustavo J. Sanchez

Publisher

Createspace

Language

English

Pages

264

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

22.9x15.2x1.4 cm

Weight

0.36 kg.

ISBN13

9781544860749

Synopsis "Robinson Crusoe"

Robinson Crusoe is one of the most famous adventure books in the world. It was written by Daniel Defoe in 1791 and is considered the first English novel as such. It tells the story of the young Robinson Crusoe who, disobeying the wishes of his father, embarks on a long voyage as a sailor aboard a business ship. But a great storm abates the ship in which it traveled, wrecking to an uninhabited island near Venezuela. Alone and without means of escape, they will spend their adventures in the island in which it stays during 28 years. Robinson Crusoe is part of the literature of the eighteenth century, marked by the Enlightenment and the Romantic movement, characterized by its commitment to imagination and subjectivity, its freedom of expression and its idealization of nature. The novel includes features of both movements and also elements that would be present in Daniel Defoe's own life, such as religious sentiment and passion for travel. This love of adventure has a great presence in the novel, and shows how, despite the penalties suffered on the island, Crusoe's return to England is anticlimactic, and wishes to return to his life of adventure. One of the main themes of the novel is the overcoming of adversity and is the promotion of the protagonist to the government of its surroundings. Robinson Crusoe comes to the island with nothing and ends up dominating both nature and animals. When Friday appears he is already considered the "king" of the island, and despite the affection he feels for him, his relationship is of lord and lackey.

Daniel Defoe

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English writer and journalist, Daniel Defoe is mainly known for his novel Robinson Crusoe (1719), though he also stood out for his role in the development of the press and for his political and social essays

Defoe left his studies to become a discreet businessman, whose activities were not entirely profitable, even receiving prison time for his debts

From 1695, after several years of exile due to his political ideology, he starts a new business dedicated to tiles and bricks which begins to work, providing his family—he was married and had six children—with greater economic stability

However, his political activism leads him to publish several essays or pamphlets that cost him days of imprisonment and the pillory. After returning to jail, Defoe begins working from a magazine supporting political factions of the government, participating in the English secret services

In 1719 he publishes his great novel, Robinson Crusoe, which allows him to launch into a literary career marked by successes such as The Adventures of Captain Singleton, A Journal of the Plague Year, or Moll Flanders. His popularity grew and his influence on subsequent generations of writers by enhancing the novelistic genre is notable

Despite all his success and his connections with the government, Defoe never achieved stable economic solvency for long. His death in 1731 occurred while fleeing from new creditors

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