Robinson Crusoe - Brossura

Defoe, Daniel

Brossura

ISBN 10: 1843441187 ISBN 13: 9781843441182

Casa editrice: Pulp the Classic, 2013

Riassunto

Cannibals! Captives! Coconuts!

 

One man's love of the sea leaves him stranded on a desert island with nothing but a few goats, a bible, and a parrot for company. Will he ever escape? Will his new pal Friday learn to efficiently press a goatskin jerkin? Or will solitude drive him totally nuts? 

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Informazioni sull?autore

Daniel Defoe was an English trader, writer, journalist, pamphleteer, and spy. Defoe is notable for being one of the earliest proponents of the novel, as he helped to popularize the form in Britain, and is among the founders of the English novel. He wrote more than 500 books, pamphlets, and journals.

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Robinson Crusoe

By Daniel Defoe

Oldcastle Books

Copyright © 2015 Oldcastle Books Ltd
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ISBN: 978-1-84344-118-2

Contents

I Go to Sea, 
I Am Captured by Pirates, 
I Escape from the Sallee Rover, 
I Become a Brazilian Planter, 
I Go on Board in an Evil Hour, 
I Furnish Myself with Many Things, 
I Build My Fortress, 
The Journal, 
I Sow My Grain, 
I Travel Quite Across the Island, 
I Am Very Seldom Idle, 
I Make Myself a Canoe, 
I Improve Myself in the Mechanic Exercises, 
I Find the Print of a Man's Naked Foot, 
I See the Shore Spread with Bones, 
I Seldom Go from My Cell, 
I See the Wreck of a Ship, 
I Hear the First Sound of a Man's Voice, 
I Call Him Friday, 
We Make Another Canoe, 
We March Out Against the Cannibals, 
We Plan a Voyage to the Colonies of America, 
We Quell a Mutiny, 
We Seize the Ship, 
I Find My Wealth All About Me, 
We Cross the Mountains, 
I Revisit My Island, 

CHAPTER 1

I GO TO SEA

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. He got a good estate by merchandise, and leaving off his trade, lived afterwards at York, from whence he had married my mother, whose relations were named Robinson, a very good family in that country, and from whom I was called Robinson Kreutznaer; but by the usual corruption of words in England we are now called, nay, we call ourselves, and write our name – "Crusoe", and so my companions always called me.

I had two elder brothers, one of whom was lieutenant-colonel to an English regiment of foot in Flanders, formerly commanded by the famous Colonel Lockhart, and was killed at the battle near Dunkirk against the Spaniards; what became of my second brother I never knew, any more than my father or mother knew what was become of me.

Being the third son of the family, and not bred to any trade, my head began to be filled very early with rambling thoughts. My father, who was very ancient, had given me a competent share of learning, as far as house education and a country free school generally goes, and designed me for the law; but I would be satisfied with nothing but going to sea; and my inclination to this led me so strongly against the will, nay, the commands of my father, and against all the entreaties and persuasions of my mother and other friends, that there seemed to be something fatal in that propension of nature tending directly to the life of misery which was to befall me.

My father, a wise and grave man, gave me serious and excellent counsel against what he foresaw was my design. He called me one morning into his chamber, where he was confined by the gout, and expostulated very warmly with me upon this subject. He asked me what reasons, more than a mere wandering inclination, I had for leaving father's house and my native country, where I might be well introduced, and had a prospect of raising my fortune by application and industry, with a life of ease and pleasure. He told me it was men of desperate fortunes on one hand, or of aspiring, superior fortunes on the other, who went abroad upon adventures, to rise by enterprise, and make themselves famous in undertakings of a nature out of the common road; that these things were all either too far above me, or too far below me; that mine was the middle state, or what might be called the upper station of low life, which he had found, by long experience, was the best state in the world, the most suited to human happiness, not ex

Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: Pulp the Classic
• Data di pubblicazione: 2013
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 1843441187
• ISBN 13: 9781843441182
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 349
• Contatto del produttore: non disponibile
• Persona responsabile: non disponibile