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Robinson Crusoe Mass_market - 1961
by Defoe, Daniel
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- Title Robinson Crusoe
- Author Defoe, Daniel
- Binding mass_market
- Edition [ Edition: Repri
- Condition Used - Good
- Pages 320
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Signet Classics, E Rutherford, New Jersey, U.S.A.
- Date May 1, 1961
- Bookseller's Inventory # 0451522362.G
- ISBN 9780451522368 / 0451522362
- Weight 0.35 lbs (0.16 kg)
- Dimensions 6.9 x 4.25 x 0.56 in (17.53 x 10.80 x 1.42 cm)
- Ages 11 to 11 years
- Grade levels 6 - 6
- Reading level 1320
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 90046733
- Dewey Decimal Code FIC
About this book
Robinson Crusoe was first published in April 1719, in London. In the beginning, the story was published as an autobiography, but it was later established that the author was Daniel Defoe. The novel became an instant classic, with four editions printed in the first year of publication. Often called the first English novel, it follows the story of Robinson Crusoe, a man marooned on an island. Crusoe’s adventure-packed story of survival started the genre of realistic fiction and inspired a slew of other survival novels. Over the course of its publication history, Robinson Crusoe has become the second-most translated book in the world.
Summary
The classic tale of a man shipwrecked on a remote island, and his struggle to retain his humanity against the forces of nature, as well as do battle with his own fears and loneliness.
First line
I WAS born in the year 1632, in the city of York, of a good family, though not of that country, my father being a foreigner of Bremen, who settled first at Hull.
First Edition Identification
True first editions of Robinson Crusoe are exceedingly rare and valuable. When the book was first published in April 1719, people read it so often that most copies have since fallen to pieces. The first edition was published by William Taylor at the Ship, a place of publication on Paternoster Row, a street in London home to the city’s publishing trade. The octavo book is bound in crushed red morocco.
