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Author: Timothy Severin
Publisher: Pan
Published: 2003
Total Pages: 353
ISBN-13: 9780330486774
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis work explores the legend behind Daniel Defoe's classic novel, visiting possible places where this famous literary character could have been marooned. It also re-examines the claim that Crusoe was based on a real life castaway, Alexander Selkirk.
Author: Timothy Severin
Publisher: Macmillan _
Published: 2002
Total Pages: 353
ISBN-13: 9780333905555
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis work is an exploration in to the legend behind Danile Defoe's classic novel, citing possible places where this famous character could have been marooned. It rexamines the claim that Crusoe was based on a real life castaway, Alexander Selkirk. Describing the tropical locales and the practicalities of island life, the text brings the fictional and the factual together, along the way exploding some enduring myths.
Author: Daniel Defoe
Publisher: Ags Pub
Published: 1994-08
Total Pages: 64
ISBN-13: 9780785407706
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Virginia Ogden Birdsall
Publisher: Bucknell University Press
Published: 1985
Total Pages: 210
ISBN-13: 9780838750766
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis study contends that the main characters in Defoe's six major fictions represent a more profound anxiety and cynicism regarding the human condition than has been generally recognized. From Robinson Crusoe to Roxana -- each is engaged in a lonely and futile search for identity and significance, and each pursues that goal with ruthless singlemindedness.
Author: Daniel Defoe
Publisher:
Published: 1894
Total Pages: 144
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis little book is the result of much experience in seeking to adapt the story of Robinson Crusoe to the literary attainments and educational needs of children in the primary schools... Those events in DeFoe's story that are of doubtful educational value are omitted; but it is believed that the child's interest in the narrative is not impaired thereby. The language is that of children, and Robinson seems to be telling his story to them.
Author: Elizabeth Bishop
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Published: 2015-01-13
Total Pages: 64
ISBN-13: 1466889411
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWhether writing about waiting as a child in a dentist's office, viewing a city from a plane high above, or losing items ranging from door keys to one's lover in the masterfully restrained "One Art," Elizabeth Bishop somehow conveyed both large and small emotional truths in language of stunning exactitude and even more astonishing resonance. As John Ashbery has written, "The private self . . . melts imperceptibly into the large utterance, the grandeur of poetry, which, because it remains rooted in everyday particulars, never sounds ‘grand,' but is as quietly convincing as everyday speech."
Author: Daniel Defoe
Publisher: DigiCat
Published: 2022-05-25
Total Pages: 699
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKSet in the 17th century, Robinson Crusoe follows the eponymous Robinson Crusoe as he leaves home to make his fortune. After a series of misadventures in Africa, Crusoe is shipwrecked on a desert island for 28 years, forming much of the adventure. Crusoe's life on the island, his encounter with cannibals, and his rescue of shipwrecked Spaniards are highlights of the story. In The further adventures of Robinson Crusoe, Crusoe and Man Friday journey to Europe, then on a trading adventure to India and China. Rather than returning to Europe by ship, Crusoe's last great adventure is an overland journey across China and Siberia. Daniel Defoe (c.1659-1731) was an English writer credited with publishing the first English-language novel, ROBINSON CRUSOE. Born Daniel Foe, he wrote more than 500 works during his life, including novels and political works, and in a variety of subjects.
Author: Katherine Frank
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Published: 2021-11-15
Total Pages: 350
ISBN-13: 1639360271
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIt is January 1719 and Daniel Defoe, almost sixty, sits at a table, writing. He is troubled with gout and debt, but for now is preoccupied with a younger man on a barren shore – Robinson Crusoe, for which he will principally be remembered. Several miles south, an old man, Robert Knox, is bent over a heavy volume. It is Historical Relation, his account of being held captive on Ceylon, published forty years ago after he escaped and returned to England. It has long been out of print, but a copy perhaps sits on the desk of Daniel Defoe as he writes. Where did Crusoe come from? And what is the secret of his endurance? Crusoe explores the intertwined lives of two real men – Daniel Defoe and Robert Knox – and the character and book that emerged from their peculiar conjunction. It is the biography of a book and its hero, the story of Defoe, the man who wrote Robinson Crusoe, and of Robert Knox, the man who was Crusoe.
Author: Daniel Defoe
Publisher: Good Press
Published: 2019-11-19
Total Pages: 432
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKRobinson Crusoe is a novel by Daniel Defoe, first published on 25 April 1719. The first edition credited the work's protagonist Robinson Crusoe as its author, leading many readers to believe he was a real person and the book a travelog of true incidents. The Life and Most Surprising Adventures is the third novel in the series.
Author: Daniel Defoe
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Published: 2018-05-30
Total Pages: 232
ISBN-13: 9781720494164
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe novel Robinson Crusoe tells the story of a young and impulsive Englishman that defies his parents' wishes and takes to the seas seeking adventure. The young Robinson Crusoe is shipwrecked and castaway on a remote tropical island for 28 years. The story may be based on the true-life events of Alexander Selkirk, a Scottish castaway who survived four years on a Pacific island, or Henry Pitman, a political rebel surgeon castaway from a Caribbean penal colony. This classic tale of adventure features cannibals, captives, and mutineers.
