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A PENGUIN CLASSICS HARDCOVER ROBINSON CRUSOE ...

Daniel Defoe's great masterpiece  in a gorgeous new clothbound edition designed by the
award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith. These delectable and collectible Penguin editions are
bound in high-quality colourful  tactile cloth with foil stamped into the design 'I walk'd
about on the shore  lifting up my hands  and my whole being  as I may say  wrapt up in the
contemplation of my deliverance ... reflecting upon all my comrades that were drown'd  and that
there should not be one soul sav'd but my self ... ' Who has not dreamed of life on an exotic
isle  far away from civilization? Here is the novel which has inspired countless imitations by
lesser writers  none of which equal the power and originality of Defoe's famous book. Robinson
Crusoe  set ashore on an island after a terrible storm at sea  is forced to make do with only a
knife  some tobacco  and a pipe. He learns how to build a canoe  make bread  and endure endless
solitude. That is  until  twenty-four years later  when he confronts another human being. First
published in 1719  Robinson Crusoe has been praised by such writers as James Joyce  Virginia
Woolf  and Samuel Johnson as one of the greatest novels in the English language. 'Robinson
Crusoe has a universal appeal  a story that goes right to the core of existence' Simon Armitage

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