num_pages: 409
description: Defoe's most celebrated story of Crusoe's shipwreck, his resourcefulness and ingenuity in his soliatry life on a desert island and his rescue of Man Friday has been abridged and retold many times since its publication (in two volumes) in 1719. It even appeared recently in graphic-novel form. In 1968 Kathleen Lines determined to make the original text more accessible to young readers by breaking Defoe's original, continuous narrative into chapters, slightly cutting Crusoe's long meditations, and compressing the relevant bits of THE FARTHER ADVENTURES into a neat Epilogue, so that readers learn what happened to Friday. The evocative engravings are reproduced from a mid-nineteenth-century edition published by Cassell, Petter &amp; Gilpin.
language: English
title: Robinson Crusoe: His Life and Strange Surprising Adventures
titlecomplete: Robinson Crusoe: His Life and Strange Surprising Adventures (Everyman's Library CHILDREN'S CLASSICS)
characters: Robinson Crusoe, Friday
genres: Fiction, Adventure, British Literature, Classic Literature, School, Literature, 18th Century, Classics, Novels, Historical Fiction
ratings_count: 296838
places: Brazil, small island on mouth of Orinoco river, North Africa, Caribbean Islands
series: Robinson Crusoe
publisher: GARDNERS VI BOOKS AMS006