Robinson Crusoe
Condition: SECONDHAND
This is a secondhand book. The jacket image is a photograph of the exact copy we have in stock. This image shows the condition of this book. Further condition remarks are below.
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damage
Pages: Tanning and foxing
Markings: Previous owner
Condition remarks: Mylar sleeve on jacket.
Few novels have captured the raw drama of human survival quite like Robinson Crusoe, Daniel Defoe's landmark tale of a castaway who must rebuild civilisation from scratch on a deserted tropical island. After a catastrophic shipwreck, Crusoe finds himself utterly alone, stripped of every comfort of 18th-century English society, forced to harness ingenuity, faith, and sheer will to carve out an existence in the wilderness — until the arrival of the man he names Friday irrevocably changes his solitary world. Published in 1719 and widely regarded as one of the earliest and most influential novels in the English language, Robinson Crusoe chronicles the triumph of the human spirit against insurmountable odds while quietly interrogating themes of colonialism, religious providence, and the nature of civilisation itself. Defoe's prose is deceptively plain — journalistic and methodical — yet it draws the reader into an almost hypnotic sense of lived reality, making Crusoe's island feel as tangible and threatening as any world in fiction. Centuries after its first publication, the novel's central question lingers: what does it truly mean to be alone, and what does a man become when no society is watching?
Author: Daniel Defoe
Format: Hardback
Genre: Classic fiction
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damage
Pages: Tanning and foxing
Markings: Previous owner
Condition remarks: Mylar sleeve on jacket.
Few novels have captured the raw drama of human survival quite like Robinson Crusoe, Daniel Defoe's landmark tale of a castaway who must rebuild civilisation from scratch on a deserted tropical island. After a catastrophic shipwreck, Crusoe finds himself utterly alone, stripped of every comfort of 18th-century English society, forced to harness ingenuity, faith, and sheer will to carve out an existence in the wilderness — until the arrival of the man he names Friday irrevocably changes his solitary world. Published in 1719 and widely regarded as one of the earliest and most influential novels in the English language, Robinson Crusoe chronicles the triumph of the human spirit against insurmountable odds while quietly interrogating themes of colonialism, religious providence, and the nature of civilisation itself. Defoe's prose is deceptively plain — journalistic and methodical — yet it draws the reader into an almost hypnotic sense of lived reality, making Crusoe's island feel as tangible and threatening as any world in fiction. Centuries after its first publication, the novel's central question lingers: what does it truly mean to be alone, and what does a man become when no society is watching?