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Author
Publisher
Pegasus Books
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
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.
4) Foe
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
1987, c1986
Language
English
Description
While marooned on an island in the Atlantic, Sue Barton finds herself a character in a fiction novel. She spends a year with two other castaways, a mute Negro called Friday and Robinson Cruso.
Author
Series
Publisher
Norton
Pub. Date
1994.
Language
English
Description
Presents an annotated text of Daniel Defoe'searly eighteenth-century novel about an adventurous Englishman who becomes the sole survivor of a shipwreck and lives for nearly thirty years on a desert island before being rescued, and includes a selection of contextual and critical essays.
Author
Publisher
Basic Books
Pub. Date
2002
Language
English
Description
For nearly three centuries, Robinson Crusoe has been the archetypal castaway, the symbol of survival in uninhabited wilds. In this book, Tim Severin adds this enterprising hero to the roster of legendary figures whose adventures he's replicated and whose origins he's explored. With the signature approach to literary and historical sleuthing that has led the New York Times to describe him as "original, audacious, and exuberant," Severin uncovers the...
Author
Series
Publisher
Stone Arch Books, a Capstone imprint
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
In this graphic retelling of the classic novel, eighteen-year-old Robinson Crusoe runs away from home to travel the world in 1659, and ends up shipwrecked on a deserted island where he lives for more than twenty-eight years, facing many dangers with a native he rescues from cannibals, and calls Friday.
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