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By (author) Defoe Daniel

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Little treasures, the FLAME TREE COLLECTABLE CLASSICS are chosen to create a delightful and timeless home library. Each stunning, gift edition features deluxe cover treatments, ribbon markers, luxury endpapers and gilded edges. The unabridged text is accompanied by a Glossary of Victorian and Literary terms produced for the modern reader.

Little treasures, the FLAME TREE COLLECTABLE CLASSICS are chosen to create a delightful and timeless home library. Each stunning, gift edition features deluxe cover treatments, ribbon markers, luxury endpapers and gilded edges. The unabridged text is accompanied by a Glossary of Victorian and Literary terms produced for the modern reader.

After a dramatic shipwreck, Robinson Crusoe is a castaway on a tropical island for 28 years. Defoe”s classic tale features a series of events involving mutineers and prisoners, while Crusoe wrestles with his own solitude. Probably the first true novel in the English language.

Biographical note

Daniel Defoe (c.1660–1731) was a merchant, dissenter, pamphleteer, free-thinker and novelist at the birth of the novel as a form of literature. Robinson Crusoe (1719) and Moll Flanders (1722) are amongst his many achievements. With over 300 other publications during his lifetime, he is regarded as one of the most influential and significant writers of all time.