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  • Published: 4 December 1993
  • ISBN: 9781857159189
  • Imprint: Childrens Classics
  • Format: Hardback
  • Pages: 409
  • RRP: $42.00

Robinson Crusoe




Puffin Classics: the definitive collection of timeless stories, for every child.

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 & Gilpin.

  • Published: 4 December 1993
  • ISBN: 9781857159189
  • Imprint: Childrens Classics
  • Format: Hardback
  • Pages: 409
  • RRP: $42.00

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