Thomas Keymer is a 2011 Fellow of The Royal Society of Canada.
'I made him know his Name should be Friday, which was the Day I sav'd his Life...I likewise taught him to say Master'
Robinson Crusoe's seafaring adventures are abruptly ended when he is shipwrecked, the solitary survivor on a deserted island. He gradually creates a life for himself, building a in English literature. land, and making a companion from the native whose life he saves.
Daniel Defoe's enthralling story-telling and imaginatively detailed descriptions have ensured that his fiction masquerading as fact remains one of the most famous stories in English literature. On one level a simple adventure story, the novel also raises profound questions about moral and spiritual values, society, and man's abiding acquisitiveness. This new edition includes a scintillating Introduction and notes that illuminate the historical context.
Readership : Readers and students of classic fiction, adventure and travel writing, eighteenth-century literature, courses on the novel
