{"product_id":"2026200018736-secondhand-robinson-crusoe","title":"Robinson Crusoe","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition remarks:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBook: Good\u003cbr\u003eJacket: No dust jacket\u003cbr\u003ePages: Tanning and foxing\u003cbr\u003eMarkings: Previous owner\u003cbr\u003eCondition remarks: Condition as shown in image\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eShipwrecked, alone, and thousands of miles from civilisation, Robinson Crusoe refuses to surrender to despair — and in doing so, becomes one of literature's most enduring symbols of human resilience. Daniel Defoe's 1719 masterwork chronicles the extraordinary ordeal of an English sailor cast ashore on a remote tropical island, where he must construct shelter, grow food, tame animals, and ultimately confront the terrifying reality that he is not alone. Told with a gripping, diary-like immediacy, the novel immerses the reader in Crusoe's painstaking efforts to impose order on a wild and indifferent world, building to his fateful encounter with the man he names Friday.\n\nBeyond its thrilling narrative, Robinson Crusoe stands as a foundational text of the Western literary canon — widely regarded as one of the first true English novels — and a profound meditation on colonialism, faith, self-reliance, and the very nature of civilisation. Defoe's plain yet persuasive prose masks a deeply layered argument about what it means to be human when stripped of society's comforts and conventions. Centuries after its first publication, this tale of solitude and survival continues to ask a question that no reader can easily answer: how far would you go to endure?\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Secondhand Stock","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50573358661851,"sku":"2026200018736-SECONDHAND","price":10.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0523\/7646\/9701\/files\/890bc146-fa49-44f4-81e0-e1583f109695.png?v=1791168069","url":"https:\/\/bookgrocer.com\/products\/2026200018736-secondhand-robinson-crusoe","provider":"Book Grocer","version":"1.0","type":"link"}