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Robinson Crusoe
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Robinson Crusoe Hardcover - 2011

by Daniel Defoe; George Cruikshank (Illustrator); Afterword by Ned Halley


About this book

Robinson Crusoe was first published in April 1719, in London. In the beginning, the story was published as an autobiography, but it was later established that the author was Daniel Defoe. The novel became an instant classic, with four editions printed in the first year of publication. Often called the first English novel, it follows the story of Robinson Crusoe, a man marooned on an island. Crusoe’s adventure-packed story of survival started the genre of realistic fiction and inspired a slew of other survival novels. Over the course of its publication history, Robinson Crusoe has become the second-most translated book in the world.

First Edition Identification

True first editions of Robinson Crusoe are exceedingly rare and valuable. When the book was first published in April 1719, people read it so often that most copies have since fallen to pieces. The first edition was published by William Taylor at the Ship, a place of publication on Paternoster Row, a street in London home to the city’s publishing trade. The octavo book is bound in crushed red morocco.

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  • Title Robinson Crusoe
  • Author Daniel Defoe; George Cruikshank (Illustrator); Afterword by Ned Halley
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Edition Unabridged
  • Pages 389
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Collectors Library
  • Date 2011-03
  • Illustrated Yes
  • ISBN 9781907360190 / 1907360190
  • Weight 0.5 lbs (0.23 kg)
  • Dimensions 6 x 3.9 x 1 in (15.24 x 9.91 x 2.54 cm)
  • Ages 09 to 12 years
  • Grade levels 4 - 7
  • Reading level 1270
  • Library of Congress subjects Islands, Crusoe, Robinson (Fictitious character)
  • Dewey Decimal Code 823.5

About the author

Daniel Defoe (1660-1731), son of a London butcher, James Foe, took the pen name Defoe in 1703, the year he was pilloried and jailed for publishing a notorious attack on the religious hypocrisy and intolerance of the English political class. His imprisonment ruined his lucrative trade as a merchant but made him a popular figure with the public. Freed by the intervention of rising statesman Robert Harley, Defoe became a renowned journalist, but also a government spy. Robinson Crusoe, his first work of fiction, was published in his sixtieth year, but was soon followed by other lasting novels, including The Life and Adventures of Mr Duncan Campbell, Moll Flanders, A Journal of the Plague Year and Roxana.
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