Robinson Crusoe - by Daniel Defoe (Hardcover)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>A beautifully illustrated edition of Daniel Defoe's enduring classic about an adventurer stranded on a desert island<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><p>Designed to appeal to the book lover, the Macmillan Collector's Library is a series of beautifully bound pocket-sized gift editions of much loved classic titles. Bound in real cloth, printed on high quality paper, and featuring ribbon markers and gilt edges, Macmillan Collector's Library are books to love and treasure. <p/>Shipwrecked off the coast of Trinidad, Robinson Crusoe - a young man with a thirst for adventure - finds himself washed up on a remote tropical island with nothing but a few tools and animals for company. Castaway for thirty years, he must battle cannibals, mutineers and the elements in a tale so convincing that many readers at the time believed it to be non-fiction. <p/> A true page-turner, <i>Robinson Crusoe </i>is one of the most enduring novels in the English language and its unique blend of extraordinary realism and brilliant drama continues to delight readers the world over. <p/> This Macmillan Collector's Library edition features illustrations by the celebrated Victorian caricaturist George Cruikshank, and an afterword by Ned Halley.</p><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br>Daniel Defoe was probably born in London in 1660 and we know little of his early life beyond his parentage - his father, James Foe, was a butcher - and that his childhood home was one of the few buildings in his area to survive the Great Fire of London in 1665. His adult life was eventful and saw Foe (who adopted the pen name Defoe in 1703) rise through the ranks as a merchant, gain notoriety for pamphleteering and flung into prison as a result, achieve renown for his journalism, and become a spy for the government. He was sixty when <i>Robinson Crusoe</i>, his first work of fiction, was published to great acclaim. Other novels, including <i>Moll Flanders, A Journal of the Plague Year</i> and <i>Roxana</i> followed and Defoe continued writing until his death in 1731.
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