Robinson Crusoe
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3.9 • 111 Ratings
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Publisher Description
The book is a fictional autobiography of the title character, whose birth name is Robinson Kreutznaer, a castaway who spends years on a remote tropical island near Trinidad, encountering cannibals, captives, and mutineers before being rescued.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Newly abridged by Timothy Meis, James Fenimore Cooper's The Last of the Mohicans comes to life under the paintbrush of N.C. Wyeth, with illustrations originally published in 1919. The artist offers readers a close-up view of the French and Indian War, in paintings such as British colonel Duncan's struggle against a Huron warrior or the Mohican Chingachgook similarly fighting off another Huron warrior in the clearing of a wood. Wyeth's paintings also accompany Meis's adaptation of Daniel DeFoe's Robinson Crusoe, due out in February.
Customer Reviews
Worth Reading
Very enjoyable, but quite dated writing, which is to be expected of a book so old. But, definitely worth reading.
Like a story told by The old goat at the pub
On and on endlessly extolling some ripping yarn about bravery, savagery, cannibals, wolves and bears. There are pirates, slave traders, mutineers and plenty of God and religion. What more could a reader want. Travelling in exotic and remote places, incredible luck and bad luck etc etc etc.
Fantastic!
I can't believe it was written in 1719.. it's fascinating & varies so differently from how modern novels read.. it's not predictable.
I needed to skim the many pages of religious moral awakening (pretty much condenses into guilt about not lowering oneself before God & constantly praising his name), which give insight into the thinking at the time