
Robinson Crusoe
Daniel Defoe(Author)
BBC Physical Audio (Publisher)
Published on 10. July 2008
Audio
CD-Audio
978-1-4084-0065-4 (ISBN)
Description
Young Robinson Crusoe has a burning ambition to be a sailor. Paying no attention to his parents' warnings he runs away to sea to embark on a series of thrilling adventures: struggles with Barbary pirates, a shipwreck and the extraordinary meeting with Man Friday... Roy Marsden plays the older Robinson Crusoe looking back on a life of recklessness, daring and adventure - and the survival of twenty-eight years, two months and nineteen days on a desert island. Based on the real-life adventures of Alexander Selkirk, Robinson Crusoe was one of the very first adventure stories to be published in English literature. It remains as gripping today as it did on first publication in 1719, and this enthralling dramatisation perfectly evokes the excitement and adventure of the original book.
2 CDs. 2 hrs.
2 CDs. 2 hrs.
Reviews / Votes
Never since childhood have I been so thoroughly immersed in a book-Jim Crace, Financial TimesAn 18th-century reader, raised on a high-minded diet of elegy and pastoral, must have felt stunned on first encountering the jagged prose of a Daniel Defoe, with its street-wise populism and delight in the commonplace-Terry Eagleton
Robinson Crusoe has a universal appeal, a story that goes right to the core of existence-Simon Armitage, Guardian
Defoe should surely be credited with inventing the English novel-Mail on Sunday
Defoe was an imaginative genius-John Carey, Sunday Times
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Series
Edition
Unabridged edition
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
BBC Audio, A Division Of Random House
Target group
Children/juvenile
Interest Age: From 7 to 9 years
Edition type
Unabridged edition
Product notice
Audio CD
Dimensions
Height: 124 mm
Width: 141 mm
Thickness: 12 mm
Duration
Dauer: 7200 sec
Weight
106 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-4084-0065-4 (9781408400654)
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Daniel Defoe was born in London in 1660. He worked briefly as a hosiery merchant, then as an intelligence agent and political writer. His writings resulted in his imprisonment on several occasions, and earned him powerful friends and enemies. During his lifetime Defoe wrote over two hundred and fifty books, pamphlets and journals and travelled widely in both Europe and the British Isles. Among his most famous works are Robinson Crusoe (1719), Moll Flanders (1722) and A Journal of the Plague Year (1722). Though Defoe was nearly sixty before he began writing fiction, his work is so fundamental to the development of the novel that he is often cited as the first true English novelist. He is also regarded as a founding father of modern journalism and one of the earliest travel writers. Daniel Defoe died in April 1731.