April 12, 2024
1880S ROBINSON CRUSOE VICTORIAN ILLUSTRATED EDITION SHIPWRECK CLASSIC GIFT IDEA
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From the 1880s, this is a nice Victorian era illustrated edition of the Life and Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, by Daniel De Foe, including a Memoir of the Author. Published by The American News Co., New York. 8x5 inches, 472 pages. With a frontispiece print and an 1880s era bookplate, Claude L. Chamberlin, Private Library. Very good condition. The 1719 first edition is not obtainable.Robinson Crusoe is a novel by Daniel Defoe, first published on 25 April 1719. The first edition credited the work's protagonist Robinson Crusoe as its author, leading many readers to believe he was a real person and the book a travelogue of true incidents.Epistolary, confessional, and didactic in form, the book is presented as an autobiography of the title character (whose birth name is Robinson Kreutznaer)—a castaway who spends twenty-eight years on a remote tropical desert island near Trinidad, encountering cannibals, captives, and mutineers, before ultimately being rescued. The story has since been thought to be based on the life of Alexander Selkirk, a Scottish castaway who lived for four years on a Pacific island called "Más a Tierra", now part of Chile, which was renamed Robinson Crusoe Island in 1966, but various literary sources have also been suggested.Despite its simple narrative style, Robinson Crusoe was well received in the literary world
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