Daniel Defoe

Gebundenes Buch

Robinson Crusoe

Beschreibung

Chiltern Publishing was formed in 2018 with a vision to create the most beautiful classics. Using a perfect mix of tradition and the very latest in printing techniques, 19th Century quality has met 21st Century technology. With wonderfully detailed covers, sparkling gilt edges, creamy pages, and stitched binding they are the most beautiful classics ever published. Robinson Crusoe is Daniel Defoe's classic story of a shipwrecked hero and his lonely adventure. Despite the wishes of his parents, Robinson Crusoe is determined to devote himself to a life at sea. Luck, however, is not with him in his various voyages - his first is shipwrecked and his second taken by pirates, yet nothing dissuades him from his passion. One day, en route to Africa, his ship is wrecked, leaving him marooned on an uninhabited island, with no way to return to civilization.

Autor

Daniel Defoe was an English novelist, journalist, merchant, pamphleteer, and spy. He is most famous for his novel Robinson Crusoe, published in 1719, which is claimed to be second only to the Bible in its number of translations. He has been seen as one of the earliest proponents of the English novel and helped to popularize the form in Britain with others such as Aphra Behn and Samuel Richardson. Defoe wrote many political tracts, was often in trouble with the authorities, and spent a period in prison. Intellectuals and political leaders paid attention to his fresh ideas and sometimes consulted him. Defoe was a prolific and versatile writer, producing more than three hundred works, books, pamphlets, and journals, on diverse topics, including politics, crime, religion, marriage, psychology and the supernatural.

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Produktdetails

• Chiltern Classics
• Verlag: Pgw
• Seitenzahl: 236
• Altersempfehlung: ab 14 Jahre
• Erscheinungstermin: 24. Dezember 2024
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 182mm x 125mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 562g
• ISBN-13: 9781914602542
• ISBN-10: 1914602544
• Artikelnr.: 70279892