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Robinson Crusoe de Daniel Defoe

Robinson Crusoe

Autor Daniel Defoe
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 9 oct 2002 – vârsta până la 13 ani

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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ISBN-13: 9780875527352
ISBN-10: 0875527353
Pagini: 192
Ilustrații: illustrations
Dimensiuni: 140 x 215 x 13 mm
Greutate: 0.27 kg
Editura: Presbyterian and Reformed 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

For more than 270 years, readers of all ages everywhere have been fascinated by the story of a young fool who ran away from wealth, security, and family for a rough life at sea -- and came to his senses too late, alone on a tropical island. Alone, except for cannibals, and God.Robinson Crusoe's adventure takes place on an island near the Orinoco River of Venezuela. Adjusting to the primitive conditions, he learns to make tools, shelters, bread, clothes, baskets, and canoes. More importantly, he becomes a Christian.Modern editions often leave out Crusoe's long struggle with God and his slow transformation as he studies and applies God's Word. As part of P&R's Classics for Young Readers Series, Kathryn Lindskoog has edited Robinson Crusoe for today's reader, faithfully preserving every detail of the original story. Full-page illustrations are featured to add to your reading pleasure.

Recenzii

"Robinson Crusoe is read as eagerly today as when it was first published....The book has attained a high place in the literature of the world, and justly so."

Notă biografică

Daniel Defoe (1660-1731) served as a soldier, sold ship insurance, succeeded in the hosiery business, failed in the brick business, and worked as a political secret agent. But his main career was journalism. To support his wife and six children, he wrote over 560 books, pamphlets, and papers. On a couple of occasions, his peppery prose landed him in prison for embarrassing people in power. He was almost sixty years old when he turned to fiction. A Scottish sailor's real-life adventures inspired him to write Robinson Crusoe (1719), which was an instant bestseller.

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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.

Cuprins

Acknowledgements
Introduction
Daniel Defoe: A Brief Chronology
A Note on the Text
The Life and Strange Surprizing Adventures of Robinson Crusoe
Appendix A: Daniel Defoe, Preface and Publisher’s Introduction to Serious Reflections During the Life and Surprising Adventures of Robinson Crusoe (1720)
Appendix B: From Charles Gildon, The Life and Strange Surprizing Adventures of Mr. D—— De F—(1719)
Appendix C: Castaway Narratives
  1. From Ibn Ṭufayl, The Improvement of Human Reason, Exhibited in the Life of Hai Ebn Yokdhan (1708)
  2. Accounts of Alexander Selkirk
    1. From Woodes Rogers, A Cruising Voyage round the World (1712)
    2. Richard Steele, The Englishman, no. 26 (1713)
  3. From Penelope Aubin, The Strange Adventures of the Count de Vinevil and his Family (1721)
  4. From Leendert Hasenbosch, An Authentick Relation of the Many Hardships and Sufferings of a Dutch Sailor (1728)
Appendix D: Explorations of Solitude
  1. From Richard Baxter, “Of Conversing with God in Solitude” (1664)
  2. From Mary, Lady Chudleigh, “Of Solitude” (1710)
  3. From Anne Kingsmill Finch, Countess of Winchilsea, “The Petition for an Absolute Retreat” (1713)
  4. From Daniel Defoe, “Of Solitude” (1720)
  5. Alexander Pope, “Ode on Solitude” (1717)
  6. From Edmund Burke, “Society and Solitude” (1757)
  7. From Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Emilius and Sophia (1762)
  8. William Cowper, “Verses Supposed to be Written by Alexander Selkirk” (1782)
  9. Charlotte Smith, Sonnet XLIV, “Written in the Church-yard at Middleton in Sussex” (1789)
  10. From Samuel Taylor Coleridge, “The Rime of the Ancyent Marinere” (1798)
  11. William Wordsworth, “Nutting” (1800)
  12. William Cowper, “The Castaway” (1803)
Appendix E: Economic Contexts
  1. From John Locke, “Of Property,” Two Treatises on Government (1698)
  2. From Adam Smith, An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations (1776)
  3. From Karl Marx, Capital (1867)
  4. From Max Weber, The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism (1920–21)
Appendix F: Defoe on Slavery and the African Trade
  1. From Reformation of Manners, A Satyr (1702)
  2. From An Essay upon the Trade to Africa (1711)
  3. From A Review of the State of the British Nation (1711, 1712)
  4. From The History and Remarkable Life of the Truly Honourable Col. Jacque, Commonly call’d Col. Jack (1722)
  5. From A Plan of the English Commerce (1728)
Appendix G: Cannibalism
  1. From Michel de Montaigne, “Of Cannibals” (tr. 1685–86)
  2. From Charles de Rochefort, The History of the Caribby-Islands (tr. 1666)
  3. From William Dampier, “Of the Reports about Cannibals” (1703)
  4. From Daniel Defoe, Serious Reflections During the Life and Surprising Adventures of Robinson Crusoe (1720)
Appendix H: Illustrations of Friday’s Rescue
  1. Anonymous (1720)
  2. Anonymous (1722)
  3. Clément Pierre Marillier (1787)
  4. Charles Ansell (1790)
  5. Thomas Stothard (1790)
  6. George Cruikshank (1831)
  7. J.J. Grandville (1840)
  8. Phiz (Hablot Knight Browne) (1846)
  9. Jules Fesquet (1877)
  10. Otis Turner (1913)
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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.