Penguin English Library Robinson Crusoe
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The Penguin English Library Edition of Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe 'I walk'd about on the shore, lifting up my hands, and my whole being, as I may say, wrapt up in the contemplation of my deliverance ... reflecting upon all my comrades that were drown'd, and that there should not be one soul sav'd but my self ... ' Who has not dreamed of life on an exotic isle, far away from civilization? Here is the novel which has inspired countless imitations by lesser writers, none of which equal the power and originality of Defoe's famous book. Robinson Crusoe, set ashore on an island after a terrible storm at sea, is forced to make do with only a knife, some tobacco, and a pipe. He learns how to build a canoe, make bread, and endure endless solitude. That is, until, twenty-four years later, when he confronts another human being. First published in 1719, Robinson Crusoe has been praised by such writers as James Joyce, Virginia Woolf, and Samuel Johnson as one of the greatest novels in the English language. The Penguin English Library - 100 editions of the best fiction in English, from the eighteenth century and the very first novels to the beginning of the First World War.
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This book is honestly so funny I've been thinking of it everyday since i read it
-keeps getting on ships despite EVERY TİME he does so he either gets scared shitless, attacked by pirates, taken as slave, ship capsizes, etc. Even after the whole island thing a few years later he goes back on a ship.
-Robinson has two cats that he brings to the island , there are also wild cats on the island. He later sees a bunch of new kittens that seem to be a mix and doesn't understand where they came from
-when he converts Friday, Friday is confused about why god allows satan to exists, crusoe has a crisis of faith and gets sick. Eventually he manages to explain it to Friday, who clearly still thinks its stupid
-friday fantasizes about taking him back to his home island and make him teach the people there. crusoe grows jealous because he thinks thatsomehow translated of wanting to leave him.
-he spends months making a ship that he has no way to actually bring to water. He later once he has more people attempts to make a ship again. This time he makes it too small for all those people.
-he voices he would rather be eaten by cannibals than go to spain
-walks around with like, 5 guns. he would have loved shooters.
-“first of all I married, and that not either to my disadvantage or dissatisfaction”
-the literal full title of the book “The Life and Strange Surprizing Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, of York, Mariner: Who lived Eight and Twenty Years, all alone in an un-inhabited Island on the Coast of America, near the Mouth of the Great River of Oroonoque; Having been cast on Shore by Shipwreck, wherein all the Men perished but himself. With An Account how he was at last as strangely deliver'd by Pyrates. Written by Himself.”
“written by himself” isn't the only lie in it.
