Robinson Crusoe - by Daniel Defoe (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><p>With its fast-moving narrative and resourceful, sympathetic hero, <em>Robinson Crusoe</em> is a book of universal appeal. When his ship capsizes in a violent storm, Robinson rescues himself as the sole survivor on an apparently uninhabited island. With the simplest of means, he builds a new life for himself and for many years lives completely on his own until one day he saves the life of a young native. . . <em>Robinson Crusoe</em> is also a work of considerable moral and religious significance, a fine tension set up between God's purpose and Crusoe's very human impulses, which Defoe depicts with vibrant and haunting realism.</p><p><br></p><p>Published in 1719, towards the end of Daniel Defoe's distinguished career as a man of letters, <em>Robinson Crusoe</em> can be regarded as one of the first English novels. It is the product of a powerful imagination: vivid and profound.</p><p><br></p><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br><b>Daniel Defoe</b> (c. 1660-1731) was an English writer, journalist, and spy, who gained enduring fame for his novel, Robinson Crusoe. Defoe is notable for being one of the earliest practitioners of the novel and helped popularize the genre in Britain. In some texts he is even referred to as one of the founders, if not the founder, of the English novel. A prolific and versatile writer, he wrote more than five hundred books, pamphlets, and journals on various topics (including politics, crime, religion, marriage, psychology and the supernatural). He was also a pioneer of economic journalism. <p/><b>Garnette Cadogan</b> is an essayist and journalist who focuses on history, culture, and the arts. He is editor-at-large for <i>Non-Stop Metropolis: A New York City Atlas</i> (edited by Rebecca Solnit and Joshua Jelly-Schapiro) and is co-editor of the <i>Oxford Handbook of the Harlem Renaissance</i> (with Shirley E. Thompson; forthcoming). His current research explores the promise and perils of urban life, the vitality and inequality of cities, and the challenges of pluralism. He has received research fellowships from Yale University, the University of Chicago, Columbia College Chicago, and New York University, where he is a Visiting Scholar at the Institute for Public Knowledge. At the Institute for Advanced Studies in Culture, Cadogan is writing a book on walking. <p/>Born in Mexico in 1958, <b>Eko</b> is a cartoonist, engraver, and painter. His wood etchings, often erotic in nature and the focus of controversial discussion, are part of a broader tradition in Mexican folk art popularized by José Guadalupe Posada. He has collaborated on projects for the <i>New York Times</i>, the <i>Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung</i>, and the Spanish daily <i>El País</i>, in addition to having published numerous books in Mexico and Spain. He is the illustrator of three books in the Restless Classics series: <i>Don Quixote</i>, <i>Frankenstein</i>, and <i>Robinson Crusoe</i>.
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