Robinson Crusoe

Author: Daniel Defoe

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Barcode 9781509842896
9781509842896

Description

Daniel Defoe urodzil sie w Londynie w 1660r. Zanim zostal pisarzem, był m.in. kupcem i agentem rzadowym. Prace literacka rozpoczal jako dziennikarz.Jako jeden z pierwszych zaczal pisac powiesci, ktorych fabule oparl na obserwacji zycia (powiesci realistyczne). Ponadto byl autorem ksiazek sensacyjno-obyczajowych i podrozniczo-przygodowych.Przypadki Robinsona Kruzoe (Robinson Kruzoe) powstaly w 1719 roku i przyniosly tworcy slawe. Inne jego powiesci to: "Dziennik roku zarazy", "Dola i niedola slawnej Moll Flanders", "Roxana, czyli Szczesliwa kochanka".Pisarz zmarl w 1731 roku. Jego tworczosc zainspirowala wielu autorow utworow podrozniczo-przygodowych.

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A beautifully illustrated edition of Daniel Defoe's enduring classic about an adventurer stranded on a desert island.

Author description

Daniel Defoe was probably born in London in 1660 and we know little of his early life beyond his parentage - his father, James Foe, was a butcher - and that his childhood home was one of the few buildings in his area to survive the Great Fire of London in 1666. His adult life was eventful and saw Foe (who adopted the pen name Defoe in 1703) rise through the ranks as a merchant, gain notoriety for pamphleteering and flung into prison as a result, achieve renown for his journalism, and become a spy for the government. He was sixty when Robinson Crusoe, his first work of fiction, was published to great acclaim. Other novels followed, including Moll Flanders, A Journal of the Plague Year and Roxana, and Defoe continued writing until his death in 1731.