Robinson Crusoe - Brossura

Defoe, Daniel

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0553213733 ISBN 13: 9780553213737

Casa editrice: Bantam Classics, 1982

Riassunto

As the sole survivor of a shipwreck, an Englishman lives for nearly thirty years on a deserted island, surviving by his wits and accompanied only by his native companion, Friday. Reissue.

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Recensione:

“Beyond the end of Robinson Crusoe is a new world of fiction. Even though it did not know itself to be a ‘novel,’ and even though there were books that we might now call ‘novels’ published before it, Robinson Crusoe has made itself into a prototype . . . Perhaps because of all the novels that we have read . . . the novelty of Defoe’s fiction is the more striking when we return to it. Here it is, at the beginning of things, with its final word reaching out into the future.” –from the Introduction by John Mullan

L'autore:

Daniel Defoe was born Daniel Foe in London in 1660. It was perhaps, ineveitable that Defoe, an outspoken man, would become a political journalist. As a Puritan he believed God had given him a mission to print the truth, that is, to proselytize on religion and politics, and in fact, he became a prolific pamphleteer satirizing the hypocrisies of both Church and State. Defoe admired William III, and his poem The True-Born Englishman (1701) won him the King's friendship. But an ill-timed satire on High Church extremists, The Shortest Way with the Dissenters, published during Queen Anne's reign, resulted in his being pilloried and imprisoned for seditious libel in 1703.

At fifty-nine Defoe turned to fiction, completing The Life and Strange Surprising Adventures of Robinson Crusoe (1719), partly based on the saga of Alexander Selkirk, a Scottish sailor; Moll Flanders (1722); Colonel Jack (1722); A Journal of the Plague Years (1722); and Roxana or the Fortunate Mistress (1724).

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• Editore: Bantam Classics
• Data di pubblicazione: 1982
• ISBN 10: 0553213733
• ISBN 13: 9780553213737
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 304