The life and strange surprizing adventures of Robinson Crusoe of York, mariner : who lived eight and twenty years, all alone in an un-inhabited island on the coast of America, near the mouth of the great river of Oroonoque, having been cast on shore by shipwreck, wherein all the men perished but himself with an account how he was at last as strangely deliver'd by pyrates, written by himself

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Title:

Author:

Defoe, Daniel, 1661?-1731.

ISBN:

9780192833822

Personal Author:

Defoe, Daniel, 1661?-1731.

Uniform Title:

Robinson Crusoe

Publication Information:

Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1998.

Physical Description:

xxx, 316 pages : illustrations, maps ; 20 cm.

Series:

Oxford world's classics

Oxford world's classics (Oxford University Press)

World's classics.

General Note:

Originally issued in series: World's classics.

Subject Term:

Crusoe, Robinson (Fictitious character) -- Fiction.

Shipwreck survival -- Fiction.

Castaways -- Fiction.

Islands -- Fiction.

Added Author:

Crowley, J. Donald (Joseph Donald)

Electronic Access:

Publisher description http://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0907/98204677-d.html

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'It happen'd one Day about Noon going towards my Boat, I was exceeding surpriz'd with the Print of a Man's naked Foot on the Shore, which was very plain to be seen in the Sand: I stood like one Thunder-struck ...' Robinson Crusoe (1719) is one of the most famous adventure stories ever written. The account of a sailor shipwrecked on a desert island for twenty-eight years, it is also a tale of mythic proportions, an allegory, and a spiritual autobiography.L