Robinson Crusoe (Dover Thrift Editions)

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If I had only purchased one copy, I would not be so upset, but I bought 17 copies for a book discussion group and cannot return them!

This "publisher" is fraudulent and Amazon should not allow them to sell this knock-off of the real thing. This is not a complete book; what a scam! It's about HALF of the book and it ends mid sentence.

Also, why is there a motorboat with a Yamaha motor on the cover? This book took place in the s; there were no Yamaha motors or motors of any sort at the time of this book. What a rip off! I guess they didn't have time to print the entire book??? If I could I would put zero stars. The book is incomplete!!!!!!!!!! I bought it for my son's homework and he realized after starting anoting in it that it was finishing in a middle of a sentence and he did not have the end!

Robinson Crusoe (Dover Children's Evergreen Classics)

The version I got is the one with the motorboat on the cover which makes no sense given this is set in the 's. First off, this book just starts on the very first page which was a little strange, but not really a problem. Next, it has no page numbers; I can deal with that as well - after all the book was inexpensive. But then the reason I really hate this version on the book, is that it ends mid-sentence in the middle of chapter ten.

Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe Robinson Crusoe by Dan Jerome Library Since, , St.

A shipwreck's sole escapee, Robinson Crusoe endures 28 years of solitude on a Caribbean island and manages not only to survive but also to prevail. A warm humanity, evocative details of his struggle to tolerate his lonely existence, and lively accounts of his many exploits make Robinson Crusoe the most engaging of narrators.

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Thought to have been inspired by the true-life experiences of a marooned sailor, "Robinson Crusoe" tells the story of the sole survivor of a shipwreck, stranded on a Caribbean island, who prevails against all odds, enduring three decades of solitude while mastering both himself and his strange new world. First published in , the novel has long been one of the English language's great adventure stories.

In the journal he shares with us, the endearing, goatskin-clad castaway recounts the details of his lonely existence and his many adventures, including a fierce battle with cannibals and a daring rescue of Friday, the man who becomes his trusted servant and companion.

Musing over his location, he wonders whether he is on an island near 'the savage coast between the Spanish country and Brasils, which are indeed the worst of savages; for they are cannibals, men-eaters, and fail not to murther and devour all the humane bodies that fall into their hands. He wonders over how he 'might destroy some of these monsters.

Crusoe's fictionalized ingenuity in the science of agriculture adds to the plantation theme. For years he is by himself, and he bides his time with dreaming about the possibility of future slaves.

Robinson Crusoe

Later, he rescues the now infamous 'Friday', the name he gives to the native he saves from being eaten by his enemies the only natives mentioned in the story are all cannibals - a word whose origin comes into being during Columbus' Caribbean exploration. Friday is incredibly grateful and pledges his faithfulness to Crusoe, who, instead of merely allowing that he saved the man's life out of good will, is thrilled with the prospect of having a devoted slave.

From his tattered copy of the Bible, Crusoe begins to teach Christianity to Friday, who at first does not understand and asks many questions. After referring to Friday's people as 'blinded, ignorant pagans', Robinson remarks that by teaching his slave the gospel, he Crusoe has become a 'much better scholar in the scripture knowledge.

Though all early accounts refer to generous and friendly natives especilly the Taino, Morning Girl's people , their portrayal became skewed - also seen in Shakespeare's The Tempest. Though the Bible forbids the enslavement of another human being, the colonizers were able to twist this around and create a justification for their horrific treatment of millions of natives see Zinn, chapter 1 and Africans.

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This justification is both mirrored and propagated by the book. No doubt thousands of young Europeans grew up to the tale of Robinson Crusoe, enthralled and dreaming over the imaginery plantations they would make in the New World, where they would become wealthy and prosperous and better Christians through the colonial see the Colonizers page process.

In Lang's book Conquest and Commerce , the author talks about the shifting powers in the Americas in the 17th century: We can see Robinson Crusoe not only as a text to embody European colonial rhetoric, but also a text of nationalist rhetoric, symbolic of eventually beating Spain out of the New World. In The Tempest, Caliban is not taught writing, only language. Friday is not taught writing, either, though the circumstances are a little different. There is still an obvious coincidence here. He says, 'No fiction, in any language, was ever better supported than the Adventures of Robinson Crusoe.

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