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This edition has illustrations from a 19th-century edition of Robinson Crusoe.
Blurb:
Robinson Crusoe, Defoe's first novel, was published in 1719, when that prolific master of narrative realism was almost sixty. To the majority of readers, and above all to children, the book is simply a stirring tale of shipwreck and adventure on a tropical island. By the literary historian, however, Crusoe can be regarded as the first English novel, and to the social historian this paean in praise of economic man offers a mine of raw material.
Indeed, to quote Professor lan Watt, Robinson Crusoe falls most naturally into place, not with other novels, but with the great myths of Western civilization, with Faust, Don Juan, and Don Quixote.
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