Robinson Crusoe
By: by Daniel Defoe ; with illustrations of the story by Thomas Stothard, together with a foreword by Arthur D. Howden Smith
Contributors: Stothard, Thomas, 1755-1834, illustrator
Series: Great illustrated classics; Nineteenth Century Collections Online: Children's Literature and Childhood; Great illustrated classics; Nineteenth Century Collections Online: Children's Literature and Childhood
Publisher: Dodd, Mead & Company
Published: 1946
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 425
Subjects: Shipwreck survival; Fiction; Castaways
Description: Robinson Crusoe is shipwrecked "and leads a solitary existence on an uninhabited island near the Orinoco river for 24 years. He meets the difficulties of a primitive existence with wonderful ingenuity ... At length he meets a human being, a young native ... and makes him his companion and servant." Benét. The Reader's Encyclopedia.
Notes: Reproduction of the original from the Baldwin Library of Historical Children's Literature, George A. Smathers Libraries, University of Florida.