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Robinson Crusoe / Daniel Defoe.
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Defoe, Daniel, 1661?-1731
- Series:
- Courage classics
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Shipwrecks--Fiction.
- Shipwrecks.
- Survival--Fiction.
- Survival.
- Fiction.
- Genre:
- Fiction
- Penn Provenance:
- Teacher, Stuart (donor) (Running Press copy)
- Physical Description:
- 296 pages ; 22 cm
- Distribution:
- Philadelphia : Imprint of Running Press,
- Place of Publication:
- Philadelphia : Courage Books, 1995.
- Contents:
- 1. Robinson's Family
- His Elopement from His Parents
- 2. First Adventures at Sea
- Experience of a Maritime Life
- Voyage to Guinea
- 3. Robinson's Captivity at Sallee
- Escape with Xury
- Arrival at the Brazils
- 4. He Settles in the Brazils as a Planter
- Makes Another Voyage and Is Shipwrecked
- 5. Robinson Finds Himself on a Desolate Island and Procures a Stock of Articles from the Wreck
- He Constructs His Habitation
- 6. Robinson Carries All His Riches, Provisions, Etc., into His Habitation
- Dreariness of Solitude
- Consolatory Reflections
- 7. Robinson's Mode of Reckoning Time
- Difficulties Arising from Want of Tools
- He Arranges His Habitation
- 8. Robinson's Journal
- Details of His Domestic Economy and Contrivances
- Shock of an Earthquake
- 9. Robinson Obtains More Articles from the Wreck
- His Illness and Affliction
- 10. His Recovery
- His Comfort in Reading the Scriptures
- He Makes an Excursion into the Interior of the Island
- Forms His "Bower"
- 11. Robinson Makes a Tour to Explore His Island
- Employed in Basket Making
- 12. He Returns to His Cave
- His Agricultural Labors and Success
- 13. His Manufacture of Pottery and Contrivances for Baking Bread
- 14. Meditates His Escape from the Island
- Builds a Canoe
- Failure of His Scheme and Resignation to His Condition
- He Makes Himself a New Dress
- 15. He Makes a Smaller Canoe in Which He Attempts to Cruise Round the Island
- His Perilous Situation at Sea
- He Returns Home
- 16. He Rears a Flock of Goats
- His Diary
- His Domestic Habits and Style of Living
- Increasing Prosperity.
- (Continued) 17. Unexpected Alarm
- Cause for Apprehension
- He Fortifies His Abode
- 18. Precautions Against Surprise
- Robinson Discovers That His Island Has Been Visited by Cannibals
- 19. Robinson Discovers a Cave, Which Serves Him as a Retreat Against the Savages
- 20. Another Visit of the Savages
- Robinson Sees Them Dancing
- He Perceives the Wreck of a Vessel
- 21. He Visits the Wreck and Obtains Many Stores from It
- Again Thinks of Quitting the Island
- Has a Remarkable Dream
- 22. Robinson Rescues One of Their Captives from the Savages, Whom He Names Friday, and Makes His Servant
- 23. Robinson Instructs and Civilizes His Man Friday and Endeavors to Give Him an Idea of Christianity
- 24. Robinson and Friday Build a Canoe to Carry Them to Friday's Country
- Their Scheme Prevented by the Arrival of a Party of Savages
- 25. Robinson Releases a Spaniard
- Friday Discovers His Father
- Accommodation Provided for These New Guests, Who Were Afterward Sent to Liberate the Other Spaniards
- Arrival of an English Vessel
- 26. Robinson Discovers Himself to the English Captain
- Assists Him in Reducing His Mutinous Crew, Who Submit to Him
- 27. Atkins Entreats the Captain to Spare His Life
- The Latter Recovers His Vessel from the Mutineers, and Robinson Leaves the Island
- Essay / Virginia Woolf
- Essay / James Sutherland.
- Notes:
- "The text of this volume is reprinted from an early edition of 'Robinson Crusoe'."--Title page verso.
- "The essay Robinson Crusoe by Virginia Woolf is excerpted from 'The Nation and the Atheneum,' February 6, 1926. Reprinted by permission of New Statesman & Society Magazine, London."--Title page verso.
- "The essay The Author of Robinson Crusoe by James Sutherland is excerpted from 'Defoe' by James Sutherland. Copyright © 1938 by J. B. Lippincott Co. Copyright © renewed 1966 by James Sutherland. Reprinted by permission of Harper Collins Publishers, Inc."--Title page verso.
- "Cover illustration by N. C. Wyeth. Made available through the courtesy of the Rare Book Department, The Free Library of Philadelphia."--Title page verso.
- "Cover design by Toby Schmidt. Typography: Berkeley Oldstyle."--Title page verso.
- Local Notes:
- Running Press Collection copies 1 & 2 presented to the Penn Libraries in 2008 by Stuart "Buz" Teacher.
- Running Press copies have dustjackets retained.
- Running Press copies are "1" printing.
- Running Press copy 1 has cover illustration by N. C. Wyeth with "Complete and Unabridged" on jacket.
- Running Press copy 2 has cover portrait of Daniel Defoe courtesy of The Granger Collection, New York.
- Running Press copy 2 has different ISBN (0762405511) on dustjacket than that on title page verso.
- ISBN:
- 1561386529
- 9781561386529
- OCLC:
- 34012446
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