Robinson Crusoe (Illustrated)
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Descripción editorial
Robinson Crusoe sets sail on a sea voyage, against the wishes of his parents who want him to pursue a career in law. After tumultuous journeys he is shipwrecked in a storm on a desert island, which he calls the Island of Despair.
Stranded on the island for 28 years, Crusoe builds himself a kingdom with a fort, tame animals and eventually a native companion he names "Friday" after the day of the week he appeared.
Epistolary, confessional, and didactic in form, the book is presented as an autobiography of the title character.
The novel is loosely based on the life and story of Scotsman Alexander Selkirk who went to sea on the galleon Cinque Ports under privateer William Dampier. After fears that their vessel had become unseaworthy (indeed it did sink shortly thereafter), Selkirk asked to be put ashore on one of the uninhabited Juan Fernández islands -- now called Robinson Crusoe Island -- about 400 miles off the west coast of Chile, South America.
Robinson Crusoe was well received in the literary world and is often credited as marking the beginning of realistic fiction as a literary genre. It has gone on to become one of the most widely published books in history, spawning numerous sequels and adaptations for stage, film, and television.
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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.
