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Robinson Crusoe de Daniel Defoe

Robinson Crusoe

Autor Daniel Defoe
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 30 sep 2025

Momentul lecturii acestui clasic universal începe adesea cu voce tare, transformând o seară obișnuită într-o expediție imaginară pe o insulă pustie. Notăm cu interes că, deși mulți dintre noi cunoaștem premisa naufragiului, această ediție Collins Classics oferă o experiență mult mai profundă decât o simplă poveste de aventuri. Remarcăm structura atent documentată a volumului, care nu se rezumă doar la textul integral din 1719, ci include o cronologie a vieții lui Daniel De Foe și anexe fascinante despre „narativele naufragiaților” care au precedat romanul. Ca și The Life and Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, lucrarea reușește să educe spiritul practic al tânărului cititor fără a fi didactică, punând accent pe ingeniozitatea umană și pe capacitatea de a reconstrui o lume întreagă din resturile unui naufragiu. Merită menționat că această ediție este special concepută pentru cititorul modern, folosind un font lizibil și un design care evocă valorile tradiționale ale edițiilor de colecție. Progresia narațiunii, de la impulsivitatea tinereții până la maturitatea dobândită în cei 28 de ani de izolare, oferă o perspectivă realistă asupra rezilienței. Spre deosebire de atmosfera sumbră din A Journal of the Plague Year, unde autorul explorează devastarea unei epidemii, în Robinson Crusoe accentul cade pe construcție, pe îmblânzirea naturii și pe dialogul interior în momente de solitudine extremă. Este o lectură care invită la reflecție asupra valorii muncii și a supraviețuirii, fiind fundamentul pe care s-a clădit întreg genul de aventură modern.

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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781398857094
ISBN-10: 1398857092
Pagini: 288
Dimensiuni: 112 x 172 x 22 mm
Greutate: 0.26 kg
Editura: Arcturus Publishing

De ce să citești această carte

Recomandăm această carte părinților care doresc să introducă tinerii cititori (peste 10 ani) în universul marii literaturi prin intermediul unei aventuri captivante. Cititorul câștigă nu doar o lecție de istorie literară, ci și un model de perseverență și ingeniozitate. Este ocazia perfectă de a descoperi de unde a început totul în literatura de supraviețuire, într-o ediție cu o grafică modernă și materiale auxiliare valoroase.

Despre autor

Daniel De Foe (c.1660–1731) a fost o figură polivalentă a Angliei secolului al XVIII-lea, activând ca negustor, pamfletar politic, spion și jurnalist. Considerat unul dintre părinții romanului modern, el a folosit peste 190 de pseudonime de-a lungul carierei sale prolifice de peste 500 de lucrări. Deși a început să scrie ficțiune la o vârstă înaintată, succesul imediat al lui Robinson Crusoe i-a asigurat un loc permanent în canonul literar. Opera sa este marcată de un realism profund, explorând teme economice și sociale în lucrări precum Moll Flanders sau A Journal of the Plague Year, reflectând experiența sa vastă de observator al societății britanice.

Descriere scurtă

This collector-quality edition includes the complete text of Daniel Defoe's classic tale in a freshly edited and newly typeset edition. With a generous 6"x9" page size, this Summit Classic edition is printed on heavyweight bright white paper with a fully laminated cover featuring an original full color design. Page headers, a modern easy-to-read font and page design that evokes the classic values of traditional book publishing exemplify the attention to detail given this volume. Also included is an original introductory essay, intended for the modern reader and not the literature classroom, discussing the life and work of the author and the literary significance of this work in particular. Published in 1719, "Robinson Crusoe," is one of the most widely-read, frequently reprinted and widely-translated books in the English language. Often recognized as the first modern novel, the book was an immediate success and introduced the realism movement in English literature, as well as originating the still-popular "castaway" genre. The storyline familiar to most readers, with Robinson Crusoe shipwecked and stranded on a deserted island, actually takes place on Crusoe's third sea voyage, the first having ended in shipwreck and the second with his being captured by pirates. Despite these misadventures Crusoe returns to sea, only to be shipwrecked again. This time he alone survives, and over the ensuing twenty-eight years the resourceful and increasingly self-reliant castaway manages not only to survive but to become relatively comfortable under the circumstances. When cannibals from a nearby island visit "his" island to kill and eat their captives Crusoe aids one of the captives who escapes and becomes Crusoe's faithful servant and companion, "Friday." Many have read "Robinson Crusoe" simply as a compelling and original tale of adventure, complex themes and interpretations are not hard to find. Crusoe's deliberation over killing the cannibals raises the issue of cultural relativism. The novel has been interpreted in terms of european colonialism, Christian redemption, and even economics, with the classical school of thought using the tale to illustrate the allocation of labor to the value of production. Karl Marx ridiculed economists for using a work of fiction as a model, and then used it himself to support his argument that labor is inherently more valuable than capital. Certainly all of these themes can be found in the pages of this timeless classic, but perhaps the reason for its enduring popularity, aside from the simple narrative style, interesting characters and creative storyline lies, in part, in the fact that it is, after all, a compelling and original tale of adventure. Most likely born some time between 1659 and 1661, Daniel Foe began calling himself Defoe sometime by the late 1690's and became a merchant, trader, writer, tax collector and spy. In addition to notable works of fiction and pioneering efforts as a novelist, Defoe was an early economic journalist, a successful poet, a fiercely combative political pamphleteer, a widely-read author of Christian "guide to proper living" books and an early writer on psychology and the supernatural. Nearing sixty years of age, Defoe's greatest works as a writer commenced with Robinson Crusoe in 1719. In the following decade he would publish over a half-dozen novels, including Moll Flanders (1722), as well as his well-recieved "guide" books, non-fiction works on the deterioration of British society, the supernatural, foreign trade and travel, and most remarkably, the three-volume "Tour Through the Whole Island of Great Britain" (1724-1727), a monumental work depicting in detail the state of economics and trade in an England at the brink of the industrial revolution.

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The Penguin English Library Edition of Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe

'I walk'd about on the shore, lifting up my hands, and my whole being, as I may say, wrapt up in the contemplation of my deliverance ... reflecting upon all my comrades that were drown'd, and that there should not be one soul sav'd but my self ... '
Who has not dreamed of life on an exotic isle, far away from civilization? Here is the novel which has inspired countless imitations by lesser writers, none of which equal the power and originality of Defoe's famous book. Robinson Crusoe, set ashore on an island after a terrible storm at sea, is forced to make do with only a knife, some tobacco, and a pipe. He learns how to build a canoe, make bread, and endure endless solitude. That is, until, twenty-four years later, when he confronts another human being. First published in 1719, Robinson Crusoe has been praised by such writers as James Joyce, Virginia Woolf, and Samuel Johnson as one of the greatest novels in the English language.
The Penguin English Library - 100 editions of the best fiction in English, from the eighteenth century and the very first novels to the beginning of the First World War.

Notă biografică

Daniel Defoe (c. 1660 - 24 April 1731), born Daniel Foe, was an English trader, writer, journalist, pamphleteer and spy. He is most famous for his novel Robinson Crusoe, which is second only to the Bible in its number of translations. He has been seen as one of the earliest proponents of the English novel, and helped to popularise the form in Britain with others such as Aphra Behn and Samuel Richardson. Defoe wrote many political tracts and often was in trouble with the authorities, including a spell in prison. Intellectuals and political leaders paid attention to his fresh ideas and sometimes consulted with him. Defoe was a prolific and versatile writer, producing more than three hundred works-books, pamphlets, and journals-on diverse topics, including politics, crime, religion, marriage, psychology, and the supernatural. He was also a pioneer of business journalism and economic journalism. From 1719 to 1724, Defoe published the novels for which he is famous (see below). In the final decade of his life, he also wrote conduct manuals, including Religious Courtship (1722), The Complete English Tradesman (1726) and The New Family Instructor (1727). He published a number of books decrying the breakdown of the social order, such as The Great Law of Subordination Considered (1724) and Everybody's Business is Nobody's Business (1725) and works on the supernatural, like The Political History of the Devil (1726), A System of Magick (1727) and An Essay on the History and Reality of Apparitions (1727). His works on foreign travel and trade include A General History of Discoveries and Improvements (1727) and Atlas Maritimus and Commercialis (1728). Perhaps his greatest achievement with the novels is the magisterial A Tour Thro' the Whole Island of Great Britain (1724-27), which provided a panoramic survey of British trade on the eve of the Industrial Revolution.

Recenzii

Thomas Keymer provides a splendid introduction and richly explanatory endnotes (co-written with James Kelly

Textul de pe ultima copertă

Robinson Crusoe is one of the most famous literary characters in history, and his story has spawned hundreds of retellings. Inspired by the life of Alexander Selkirk, a sailor who lived for several years on a Pacific island, the novel tells the story of Crusoe's survival after shipwreck on an island, interaction with the mainland's native inhabitants, and eventual rescue. Read variously as economic fable, religious allegory, or imperialist fantasy, Crusoe has never lost its appeal as one of the most compelling adventure stories of all time. In addition to an introduction and helpful notes, this Broadview Edition includes a wide range of appendices that situate Defoe's 1719 novel amidst castaway narratives, economic treatises, reports of cannibalism, explorations of solitude, and Defoe's own writings on slavery and the African trade. A final appendix presents images of Crusoe's rescue of Friday from a dozen of the most significant illustrated editions of the novel published between 1719 and 1920.