Defoe, Daniel
Robinson Crusoe
This new edition of Defoe's masterpiece includes a lively introduction by Tom Keymer, full notes and useful appendices, including a chronology of the action of the story and Defoe's most sustained commentary on it. 'I made him know his Name should be Friday, which was the Day I sav'd his Life...I likewise taught him to say Master' Robinson Crusoe's seafaring adventures are abruptly ended when he is shipwrecked, the solitary survivor on a deserted island. He gradually creates a life for himself, building a in English literature. land, and making a companion from the native whose life he saves. Daniel Defoe's enthralling story-telling and imaginatively detailed descriptions have ensured that his fiction masquerading as fact remains one of the most famous stories in English literature. On one level a simple adventure story, the novel also raises profound questions about moral and spiritual values, society, and man's abiding acquisitiveness. This new edition includes a scintillating Introduction and notes that illuminate the historical context.
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Nyckelord: Friday, seafaring adventures, English literature
- Författare
- Defoe, Daniel
- Kelly, James
- Keymer, Thomas
- Utgivare
- Oxford University Press
- Utgivningsår
- 2007
- Språk
- en
- Utgåva
- 1
- Sidantal
- 384 sidor
- Kategorier
- Litteraturforskning
- Prosa, noveller
- Format
- E-bok
- eISBN (PDF)
- 9780191517853