9781731701022

Robinson Crusoe

Format: Hardcover

ISBN13: 9781731701022

Hardcover|9781731701022


Overview

Restless Classics presents the Three-Hundredth Anniversary Edition of Robinson Crusoe, the classic Caribbean adventure story and foundational English novel, with new illustrations and an introduction by Jamaica Kincaid that contextualizes the book for our globalized, postcolonial era. When Daniel Defoe published Robinson Crusoe in 1719, many of the readers who quickly became obsessed with the adventure story were convinced that it was a true-life travelogue written by its protagonist. Three centuries later, the book remains a classic of the adventure genre and is widely considered the first great English novel. The book also has much to teach us, in retrospect, about the entrenched attitudes of colonizers toward the colonized, and it stands at the beginning of a long tradition of colonial literature and representation that still resounds today. Now with a new introduction by Jamaica Kincaid and vivid illustrations by the Mexican artist Eko, the Restless Classics edition of Robinson Crusoe invites readers to reconsider this tale of a castaway who spends thirty years on a remote tropical island near Trinidad, encountering cannibals, captives, and mutineers before being ultimately rescued.

ISBN-13

9781731701022

ISBN-10

1731701020

Weight

1.33 Pounds

Dimensions

6.00 x 0.81 x 9.00 In

List Price

$14.70

Format

Hardcover

Language

English

Pages

296 pages

Publisher

Simon & Brown

Published On

2018-10-28



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