The Life and Strange Surprising Adventures of Robinson Crusoe; Of York, Mariner: Who Lived Eight and Twenty Years All Alone in an Uninhabited Island on the Coast of America, Near the Mouth of the Great River Oroonoque Volume 1 of 2

by Daniel Defoe

Overview

The 18th century was a wealth of knowledge, exploration and rapidly growing technology and expanding record-keeping made possible by advances in the printing press. In its determination to preserve the century of revolution, Gale initiated a revolution of its own: digitization of epic proportions to preserve these invaluable works in the largest archive of its kind. Now for the first time these high-quality digital copies of original 18th century manuscripts are available in print, making them highly accessible to libraries, undergraduate students, and independent scholars.Western literary study flows out of eighteenth-century works by Alexander Pope, Daniel Defoe, Henry Fielding, Frances Burney, Denis Diderot, Johann Gottfried Herder, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, and others. Experience the birth of the modern novel, or compare the development of language using dictionaries and grammar discourses. ++++The below data was compiled from various identification fields in the bibliographic record of this title. This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to insure edition identification: ++++British LibraryT072285In fact by Daniel Defoe. Titlepage to v.2: 'The farther adventures of Robinson Crusoe; being the second and last part of his life, .. '.London: printed for J. Buckland, W. Strahan, J. F. and C. Rivington, E. Johnson, T. Caslon, T. Longman, B. Law, J. Wilkie, T. Lowndes, W. Nicoll, S. Bladon, and R. Baldwin, 1778. 2v., plates: map; 12

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781170984796
Publisher:	Gale Ecco, Print Editions
Publication date:	06/16/2010
Pages:	302
Product dimensions:	9.68(w) x 7.44(h) x 0.63(d)

About the Author

London-born Daniel Defoe (1660-1731) pursued a variety of careers including merchant, soldier, secret agent, and political pamphleteer. He wrote books on economics, history, biography, and crime. But he is best remembered for his fiction, which he began to write late in his life and which includes the novels Moll Flanders, Roxana, and the celebrated Robinson Crusoe.