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  • Published: 1 January 2009
  • ISBN: 9780099511847
  • Imprint: Vintage Classics
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 272
  • RRP: $24.99

Robinson Crusoe





The legendary story of a marine adventurer shipwrecked on a desert island


Discover the legendary story of a marine adventurer shipwrecked on a desert island.

Robinson Crusoe runs away from home to join the navy. After a series of adventures at sea, he is shipwrecked in a devastating storm, and finds himself alone on a remote desert island. He remains there many years, building a life for himself in solitude, until the day he discovers another man's footprint in the sand...

Robinson Crusoe has a universal appeal, a story that goes right to the core of existence’ Guardian

  • Published: 1 January 2009
  • ISBN: 9780099511847
  • Imprint: Vintage Classics
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 272
  • RRP: $24.99

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Praise for Robinson Crusoe

Never since childhood have I been so thoroughly immersed in a book

Jim Crace, Financial Times

An 18th-century reader, raised on a high-minded diet of elegy and pastoral, must have felt stunned on first encountering the jagged prose of a Daniel Defoe, with its street-wise populism and delight in the commonplace

Terry Eagleton

Robinson Crusoe has a universal appeal, a story that goes right to the core of existence

Simon Armitage, Guardian

Defoe should surely be credited with inventing the English novel

Mail on Sunday

Defoe was an imaginative genius

John Carey, Sunday Times