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Robinson Crusoe (Modern Library Classics) |  | Author: Daniel Defoe
Publisher: Modern Library
Category: Book
List Price: $7.95
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Seller: belltowerbooks
Rating:  113 reviews
Sales Rank: 143764
Media: Paperback
Pages: 320
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.5
Dimensions (in): 8 x 5.2 x 0.7
ISBN: 0375757325
Dewey Decimal Number: 823.5
EAN: 9780375757327
ASIN: 0375757325
Publication Date: June 12, 2001
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Product Description
Daniel Defoe relates the tale of an English sailor marooned on a desert island for nearly three decades. An ordinary man struggling to survive in extraordinary circumstances, Robinson Crusoe wrestles with fate and the nature of God.
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 Great book! June 30, 2010
Kim Scharf (Monrovia, CA USA)
I just read this book and it was great. I couldn't stop reading it. So good you must read this review!
Robinson Crusoe was a man who wanted to be an adventurer but his family didn't want him to be that. One day he was going to London on a boat when there was a great big storm that destroyed the ship and they rowed to a boat near them. Robinson sold the boat and got on another boat. This time the ship crashed into some rocks.
Robinson woke up on an island. He saw the ship so he went to collect stuff from it. One day, a storm hit and destroyed the ship. Robinson got a lot of stuff from the ship so he built a house and he had many weapons and animals. He hunted food and he had a journal and pen until the pen ran out of ink. He spent many years there.
One morning, Robinson found footprints in the sand. He knew someone else was there. He hid in his house. Then he found out cannibals came and ate animals around the island. He knew the cannibals were look for some human flesh to eat. He needs to survive!
This book was so awesome I couldn't put it down. That is only a part of the book. There are many more parts to the book when you read the book. So if you have it, read it now. If you dont have, go to the library or buy it!
Just as good Second time around! June 17, 2010
J. Adams (Grannys Neck, Texas)
Read this book as a kid 50 years ago, and upon hearing of one of my friends was reading it, I decided that I would read it again, remembering how much I enjoyed it as a youth. Ordered this paperback enriched classic version of Robinson Crusoe and enjoyed reading it again! Some reviewers complain about various things, such as the "old english" in the book...frankly considering when it was written, I was very surprised that the book had such a modern sound to it as it does! Sure there are a few words that might throw off those who are unfamiliar with bygone words/expressions such as "ague" "oakum" and "hogshead" but there is a great little section in the notes at the back that explain what such arcane expressions mean in today's language.
Crusoe was a real "mind trip" for me, enjoyed being marooned on his island for twenty and seven years with him! Long live Friday and Poll!
The original survivor June 7, 2010
David Bonesteel (Fresno, CA United States)
Often considered to be the first novel in English, "Robinson Crusoe" is also one of the most widely known stories in the world. Turning his back on his comfortable middle-class life and turning a deaf ear to the entreaties of his parents, Crusoe takes to the sea and an adventurous life that includes storms, slavery, and winning a fortune as a plantation owner before the fateful shipwreck that strands him on a remote island for the greatest portion of the book.
Adapting oneself to the conventions of eighteenth century writing--extremely verbose by today's standard--will be a barrier to many readers, perhaps an insurmountable one. Those who persevere will find that familiarity with the style will cause the difficulties to fade so the power of the story can shine through. His efforts to make a comfortable life for himself and the moral reflections he entertains in solitude are interesting, and there are many passages of high adventure.
Great! May 4, 2010
E. Perakes
The product was in very good condition. I paid for the "Express Shipping" thinking that it would be overnight or next day. It wasn't and I didn't receive the book until almost 4-6 days after purchasing it. I was upset about this because I needed it for an assignment and didn't have it in time. Other than this, I was pleased. I would do business again and I would just order my product sooner.
Truly Essential March 28, 2010
Bill R. Moore (New York, USA)
Robinson Crusoe is one of the few books that truly everyone should read and that nearly everyone who reads anything but current bestsellers has read. This has almost as much to do with its incredible importance and near-unmatched influence as inherent quality, though this last is substantial. The book has long been called the first Western novel, and it remains one of the most widely-read and beloved nearly three centuries later and continues to hold a mighty sway over writers and the popular consciousness.
There are many reasons for this. Most obvious and important is sheer readability; the book's age is near-unbelievable, as it reads almost as well as ever despite archaic spellings and punctuation. Unlike nearly all classics, it need not be drastically edited, footnoted, and introduced for comprehension. This is hardly true of even many twentieth century works, much less ones of such vintage. Even casual readers who have almost no experience with classics, to say nothing of ones three hundred years old, can pick it up with practically no trouble. Fast-paced and deeply engrossing, it quickly draws us in and never lets go. Initial readers thought it simply too good to be true; they had never seen anything like it - scarcely even thought it possible -, flocking to it as people now flock to blockbuster films and for much the same reason. This persists to a surprisingly large degree; the book is immensely entertaining even after all this time, drawing in readers of all ages and continuing to be frequently referenced, parodied, and adapted.
The plot itself is of course also key. Robinson is a rollicking, suspense-filled, action-packed adventure of the sort that did not really reappear until over a century later with writers like Dumas. The book was immediately seen as first-rate escapism and continues to be such; we lose ourselves in Crusoe's adventures in a way few books - or any other medium - allow. It is near-ubiquitously imitated - so many clichés began here that it is almost unbelievable - but never equaled.
The character of Crusoe is also profoundly important. One of literature's great figures, he captured initial readers' imaginations in an unprecedented way and is still a towering presence. Drastically different as his experience is from all but a few people's, he has the common humanity and verisimilitude necessary for a truly identifiable character. We feel with and for him almost as if we are him, experiencing his ups and downs much as if we lived them.
This points to another integral facet - stirring realism. Daniel Defoe set a new standard here, and it has in many ways rarely been equaled. Conventionally fantastic as Crusoe's adventures are, the near-documentary style has made them at least as real for millions of readers over centuries as anything in history books or the news - or even their own lives. This ground-breaking, titanically influential feature dramatically changed the very idea of what fiction could be - nay, in the view of most novel historians, all but invented it, at least in the West. Literature has never been the same, and many would say it has never been as good.
Robinson is also of great historical value. Though clearly far from showing what everyday early eighteenth century European life was like, the book gives a very good idea of its thoughts and customs as well as much background information. This lends Robinson value beyond literature but also brings up the greatest difficulty in reading it today - the glorification of values long since rightly deemed unacceptable. Strongly Eurocentric, many parts of Robinson now seem distinctly racist, and it unashamedly champions colonialism - a movement whose destructive tendencies we have learned all too well - when still in its heyday. Some will not be able to get past this, which is understandable, but it is important to see that Robinson was truly a product of its time - indeed in many ways epitomized it. Influential critics even see it is an unapologetic colonialist allegory. This is not an excuse but an explanation. The book shows the early eighteenth century world as it seemed to Europeans - bad as well as good; some of the latter would not have been thought so at the time, but this only increases the historical value. Robinson is thus almost ethnographical - though, as with the allegory interpretation, this was almost certainly not Defoe's intent; its sociological value is probably at least as great as its historical value. More fundamentally, despite a plot that was always in many ways fantastic and has now become so popular as to seem almost hopelessly clichéd, the book remains viable because it speaks to something deep within it. Though not philosophical or otherwise containing the depth of meaning some find essential to truly great literature, its vivid dramatization of can-do optimism in utter adversity's face has always appealed to the best in us. The eternal values of courage, determination, and perseverance have rarely been better or more memorably shown, making Robinson one of the most timeless depictions of the human spirit's endurance.
One admittedly large caveat aside, Robinson is simply essential for anyone even remotely interested in literature. The few who may be reading this and have not read it must do so immediately.
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