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Robinson Crusoe: Arcturus Ornate Classics

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: 9781398851092
ISBN-10: 1398851094
Pagini: 288
Dimensiuni: 114 x 171 x 22 mm
Greutate: 0.26 kg
Editura: Arcturus Publishing
Colecția Arcturus Ornate Classics
Seria Arcturus Ornate Classics


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 striking hardback edition presents Daniel Defoe''s classic tale of adventure, Robinson Crusoe, featuring gold cover embossing and gilded page-edges.

After being shipwrecked on a desert island, marina Robinson Crusoe spends over 30 years surviving in complete solitude. Until he spies a footprint on the shore and realises, he is not as alone as he thought...

Robinson Crusoe was first published in 1719 and has been hailed as the classic adventure story. Although the inspiration came from a real-life castaway called Alexander Selkirk, the novel can be enjoyed as a tale of survival, of spiritual awakening, or as a mythic quest.

This beautiful pocket-sized gift edition contains the classic, unabridged text, presented with an embossed cover design, ivory pages, beautifully designed endpapers and gold gilded page edges. Part of the Arcturus Ornate Classics series, this book makes wonderful gift for any lover of classic literature.

ABOUT THE SERIES: Arcturus Ornate Classics are beautiful pocket editions of iconic literary works from across history. Presented with striking foil cover embossing, gilded page edges, and deluxe ivory paper, these editions make the perfect gift for lovers of classic literature.


Descriere

Descriere de la o altă ediție sau format:
This edition of Robinson Crusoe contains a retold novel, an introduction, notes on the author, notes on the background when the book was written and the book's themes, a glossary, and a free CD (running time 2 hours). The CD is read slowly and clearly to aid comprehension. It is suitable for students, schools, ELT, ESOL. Robinson Crusoe leaves his family for sea adventures but after a shipwreck is stranded on a desert island in the Caribbean for 28 years. Defoe's novel was published in 1719 but was set in the 1680s at the time of naval exploration, and the beginnings of slavery. Crusoe salvages some supplies from the wrecked ship. As the days go by, he builds a fort and a small area for animals. He gathers fruit, grows crops, keeps goats, hunts, and protects his 'castle'. In his diaries he records his progress. He also records how he reads the Bible and becomes religious. After more than 20 years on the island, Crusoe encounters cannibals, which represent the first human contact he's had since being shipwrecked. He finds a footprint, which he runs away from, but then rescues a man he calls Friday from cannibals. Friday becomes his servant. Robinson finally makes an escape when a ship of mutineers arrives on the island. Robinson and his companions help the British captain to take back control of the ship. Robinson arrives home in England to find he is wealthy after an absence of 35 years. The story, told in a journalistic way because of the way he narrates his life and records all the facts, is about how a lonely human can survive alone when hardship comes. It is also a story of how a man can create his own reality out a wilderness on a desert island. Robinson Crusoe is an important figure in literature, and his name is synonymous with a lonely man living alone on a desert island and surviving.

Recenzii

"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

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.

Cuprins

  • Acknowledgements
  • Introduction
  • Note on the Text
  • Select Bibliography
  • A Chronology of Daniel Defoe
  • A Map of the World
  • The Life and Strange Surprizing of Robinson Crusoe, of York, Mariner
  • Appendix I: Frontispiece and Preface to Serious Reflections During the Surprising Adventures of Robinson Crusoe (1720)
  • Appendix 2: A Chronology of Robinson Crusoe
  • Textual Notes
  • Explanatory Notes
  • Glossary

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.