Robinson Crusoe is not content with his life in England. He is bored and wants to see more of the world. His curiosity convinces him to leave his homeland and travel abroad.

Without telling his parents, young Robinson sets off on a voyage of discovery. During the years that follow he learns much, not just about the world, but about himself as well. Following disaster at sea on more than one occasion, Robinson toys with the idea of settling down. However, his adventurous character gets the better of him and he boards ship once again.

This time, though, a calamitous shipwreck wipes out the whole of the crew and leaves Crusoe alone on a seemingly deserted island.

How is it possible for one man to survive in such a situation? Will he manage to leave or be forced to remain on the island?

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.

In Daniel Defoe's classic tale of survival and courage, Robinson Crusoe is shipwrecked on a deserted island. He uses his wits and resources to build shelter, farm, and survive for twenty-eight years! Crusoe's adventures surviving loneliness, taming wild animals, and battling mutineers have been adapted for young readers. Crusoe's strength, courage, and faith are tested in the Calico Illustrated Classics adaptation of Defoe's The Adventures of Robinson Crusoe. Calico Chapter Books is an imprint of Magic Wagon, a division of ABDO Group. Grades 3-8.

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Daniel Defoe's enthralling story-telling and imaginatively detailed descriptions have ensured that his fiction masquerading as fact remains one of the most famous stories in English literature. On one level a simple adventure story, the novel also raises profound questions about moral and spiritual values, society, and man's abiding acquisitiveness. This new edition includes a scintillating Introduction and notes that illuminate the historical context.

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The acclaimed tale of a shipwrecked Englishman who finds himself stranded on an island off the coast of South America -- a story of survival, self-reliance, adventure, and faith.

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Roxana (1724), Defoe's last and darkest novel, is the autobiography of a woman who has traded her virtue, at first for survival, and then for fame and fortune. Its narrator tells the story of her own 'wicked' life as the mistress of rich and powerful men. Endowed with many seductive skills, she is herself seduced: by money, by dreams of rank, and by the illusion that she can escape her own past. This edition uses the rare first edition text, with a new Introduction, detailed Notes, textual history and a map of contemporary London.

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After his vessel is shipwrecked on a deserted island, Robinson Crusoe must rely on his wits to survive alone for twenty-five years.

Classic / British English Robinson Crusoe is at sea when there is a great storm. His ship goes down, and his friends die. The sea throws Crusoe onto a beach. He is on an island. But which island? Are there other people on it? And are they friendly? What will Crusoe do now?

Moll, figlia di una ladra deportata poi negli Stati Uniti, è nata in un carcere inglese. Sedotta giovanissima, dopo molte disavventure, si è sposata con un proprietario terriero della Virginia. Recatasi col marito in America, Moll scopre di aver sposato il fratellastro. Tornata in Inghilterra, sposa un rapinatore irlandese e si dà al furto con lui. Abbandonata dal marito, viene arrestata e deportata in Virginia insieme al marito irlandese che ha ritrovato in carcere. Quando, ormai vecchia, tornerà in patria, si metterà a scrivere le sue memorie.

Nata nella prigione di Newgate, avventuriera, prostituta, cinque volte sposata (una delle quali con il proprio fratello), per oltre dodici anni ladra, per otto deportata in Virginia: e poi finalmente ricca ed in odore di onestà. Questa è la storia di Moll Flanders, che Defoe racconta calandosi completamente nei panni della protagonista, provando così l'ebbrezza di 'vivere' le sue travolgenti esperienze. Il racconto in prima persona gli consente di confondere la propria anima borghese con quella di una povera delinquente, senza peraltro tradire la realtà: la storia di Moll la tagliaborse è infatti ispirata alla vita di una celebre ladra morta a Londra nel 1659 e ben presto divenuta una figura leggendaria nell'immaginazione popolare.

Un successo immediato accolse fin dalla prima edizione 'Le straordinarie e sorprendenti avventure di Robinson Crusoe'. Nei quasi trent'anni trascorsi lontano da ogni forma di civiltà, Robinson costruisce, coltiva, caccia, assegna nomi, ripercorrendo in sostanza la storia del genere umano. La forza di suggestione di quelle pagine è tale da aver oscurato tutto il resto, e forse pochi saprebbero dire, a dispetto della notorietà della vicenda, che cosa avvenne prima e dopo il fatidico naufragio. Dall'universo letterario Robinson Crusoe è passato rapidamente a quello del mito, e tuttavia questo non esaurisce il progetto dell'opera. Robinson, infatti, protagonista di una biografia in due tempi, fa ritorno nelle 'Ulteriori avventure' alla sua isola di Speranza, di cui fu già king and lord. Qui ricomposto, il grande affresco di Robinson si arricchisce per la prima volta anche della traduzione italiana delle 'Serie riflessioni', in cui lo stesso personaggio rievoca e commenta in chiave morale alcuni episodi del libro.