This classic story of a shipwrecked mariner on a deserted island is perhaps the greatest adventure in all of English literature. Fleeing from pirates, Robinson Crusoe is swept ashore in a storm possessing only a knife, a box of tobacco, a pipe-and the will to survive. His is the saga of a man alone: a man who overcomes self-pity and despair to reconstruct his life; who painstakingly teaches himself how to fashion a pot, bake bread, build a canoe; and who, after twenty-four agonizing years of solitude, discovers a human footprint in the sand... Consistently popular since its first publication in 1719, Daniel Defoe's story of human endurance in an exotic, faraway land exerts a timeless appeal. The first important English novel, "Robinson Crusoe" has taken its rightful place among the great myths of Western civilization.
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"Never since childhood have I been so thoroughly immersed in a book" (Jim Crace Financial Times )
"An 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 ) -- Dieser Text bezieht sich auf eine andere Ausgabe: Taschenbuch .
"An 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 ) -- Dieser Text bezieht sich auf eine andere Ausgabe: Taschenbuch .
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I was born in the year 1632, in the city of York, of a good family, tho' not of that country, my father being a foreigner of Bremen, who settled first at Hull: He got a good estate by merchandise, and leaving off his trade, lived afterward at York, from w Lesen Sie die erste Seite
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I was born in the year 1632, in the city of York, of a good family, tho' not of that country, my father being a foreigner of Bremen, who settled first at Hull: He got a good estate by merchandise, and leaving off his trade, lived afterward at York, from w Lesen Sie die erste Seite
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Von A. Nonymous
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Ich habe mir das Buch bestellt, um mein Vokabular aufzufrischen und zu erweitern. Natürlich eignet sich dazu jedes englische Buch, aber schon nach wenigen Seiten nimmt es einen gefangen und lässt einen nicht mehr los, bis man es zuende gelesen hat. Die Story dürfte hinlänglich bekannt sein, doch mach sie noch einmal doppelt Spaß, wenn man sie im englischen original-Text liest, und dafür muss es auch keine wissenschaftliche Edition sein, die dann locker das 10fache kostet.
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With Norton Critical Editions readers get the text of the novel and historical and contemporary essays in criticism. The ones in this version are some of the best Norton has ever compiled.
Both the historical and contemporary essays provide a compelling aesthetic case for why this novel is not merely a book for boys but one of the best English novels ever written. Thus, these essays not only highlight aspects of your reading you may or may not have noted but present a case for Defoe's skill as a writer.
A very short essay not to missed is the one by Defoe himself on solitude. It gives one pause.
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This is devided into two parts. The first being the recension of the story "Robinson Crusoe" itself and the second being a short review on the "Oxford World's Classic" edition.
PART I:
Somewhere and somehow in our life we do come across the title of Daniel Defoe's "Robinson Crusoe". A book published in April 1719, which is still very much known to us almost three centuries later. But is it still recommendable or do people only read it because it's a classic and that is what you do with classics?
I have to admit, I did not read the book until I had to and when I started reading I did it with a certain reluctance. It's not like I do not enjoy a good classic book from time to time, like reading Shakespeare or novels by Jane Austen or Charles Dickens. Yet, this book was a hard nut to crack for me. Of course you needed a pair of pages before you got used to the style of language but all in all "Robinson Crusoe" is written in a fairly modern way of the English language. So what was it, that took me about a week until I finally was able to read more than just 5 pages without falling asleep?
The story of Crusoe's landing on a deserted isle needs a long time to actually come to pass. The plotline feels like being stretched out as long as possible in order to fill the pages with words. If you want to read "Robinson Crusoe" and expect a highly interesting account of an adventure, you might be a bit disappointed. What was fairly adventurous in 1719 is not necessarily so in 2010. Nonetheless, if you look at the story from a different point of view, namely his coping with the basics of life, being stranded on a deserted island and his hard labouring in order to survive is a quiet interesting story.... Lesen Sie weiter... ›
PART I:
Somewhere and somehow in our life we do come across the title of Daniel Defoe's "Robinson Crusoe". A book published in April 1719, which is still very much known to us almost three centuries later. But is it still recommendable or do people only read it because it's a classic and that is what you do with classics?
I have to admit, I did not read the book until I had to and when I started reading I did it with a certain reluctance. It's not like I do not enjoy a good classic book from time to time, like reading Shakespeare or novels by Jane Austen or Charles Dickens. Yet, this book was a hard nut to crack for me. Of course you needed a pair of pages before you got used to the style of language but all in all "Robinson Crusoe" is written in a fairly modern way of the English language. So what was it, that took me about a week until I finally was able to read more than just 5 pages without falling asleep?
The story of Crusoe's landing on a deserted isle needs a long time to actually come to pass. The plotline feels like being stretched out as long as possible in order to fill the pages with words. If you want to read "Robinson Crusoe" and expect a highly interesting account of an adventure, you might be a bit disappointed. What was fairly adventurous in 1719 is not necessarily so in 2010. Nonetheless, if you look at the story from a different point of view, namely his coping with the basics of life, being stranded on a deserted island and his hard labouring in order to survive is a quiet interesting story.... Lesen Sie weiter... ›
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Wer Enlisch kann, fliegt bei diesem Buch einfach über die Seiten -egal wie viele es sind- und genießt die fortlaufende Geschichte des jungen Robinson, die von dem sich erinnernden alten Crusoe erzählt wird.
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Robinson Crusoe is best taken at two levels, the literal adventure story of survival on an isolated island and as a metaphor for finding one's way through life. I recommend that everyone read the book who is willing to look at both of those levels. If you only want the adventure story, you may not be totally satisfied. The language, circumstances, and attitudes may put you off so that you would prefer to be reading a Western or Space-based adventure story with a more modern perspective.
Few books require anyone to rethink the availability and nature of the fundamentals of life: Water, food, shelter, clothing, and entertainment. Then having become solitary in our own minds as a reader, Defoe adds the extraordinary complication of providing a companion who is totally different from Crusoe. This provides the important opportunity to see Crusoe's civilized limitations compared to Friday's more natural ones. The comparisons will make for thought-provoking reading for those who are able to overcome the stalled thinking that the educated, civilized route is always the best.
One of the things that I specially liked about the book is the Crusoe is an ordinary person in many ways, making lots of mistakes, and having lots of setbacks. Put a modern Superhero (from either the comic books, adventure or spy novels, or the movies) into this situation, and it would all be solved in a few minutes with devices from the heel of one's shoe. Maybe I'm old fashioned, but I liked the trial-and-error explorations. They seemed just like everyday life, and made the book's many lessons come home to me in a more fundamental way.
Have a good solitary trip through this book!
Few books require anyone to rethink the availability and nature of the fundamentals of life: Water, food, shelter, clothing, and entertainment. Then having become solitary in our own minds as a reader, Defoe adds the extraordinary complication of providing a companion who is totally different from Crusoe. This provides the important opportunity to see Crusoe's civilized limitations compared to Friday's more natural ones. The comparisons will make for thought-provoking reading for those who are able to overcome the stalled thinking that the educated, civilized route is always the best.
One of the things that I specially liked about the book is the Crusoe is an ordinary person in many ways, making lots of mistakes, and having lots of setbacks. Put a modern Superhero (from either the comic books, adventure or spy novels, or the movies) into this situation, and it would all be solved in a few minutes with devices from the heel of one's shoe. Maybe I'm old fashioned, but I liked the trial-and-error explorations. They seemed just like everyday life, and made the book's many lessons come home to me in a more fundamental way.
Have a good solitary trip through this book!
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Ein Mensch, ein ganz normaler Mensch löst sich vom Zuhause wie der Verlorene Sohn und strandet schließlich auf einer Insel. Im 17. Jahrhundert ist das, beruht auf dem realen Schicksal des Alexander Selkirk, und der Londoner Defoe machte daraus 1729 seinen späten Debütroman.
Die eingedampfte Handlung kennt wohl jeder. Im Original flicht Defoe vieles ein in die Geschichte des Gestrandeten, auf sich selbst Gestellten, der später auf den natürlichen Menschen "Freitag" trifft. Lesen kann man es als Zeugnis des englischen Kolonialismus und seiner Abwertung der "Naturvölker". Ökonomen nutzen Robinson gerne als Illustration von volkswirtschaftlichen Problemen. Als Gedankenexperiment stellt die Handlung die Frage, was ein Mensch eigentlich braucht und können muss. Theologisch-philosophisch ist Defoe auch noch, denn Robinson Crusoe hat durch sein Unglück etwas, was heute Seltenheitswert hat: Ruhe und Zeit. Somit kann er tatsächlich einmal nachdenken. Nein, Gefühl trieft hier tatsächlich so gut wie keines.
Heute ist solches schwer lesbar, die kleine Warnung muss ausgesprochen werden. Doch es ist es wert. Gute vier Sterne.
Die eingedampfte Handlung kennt wohl jeder. Im Original flicht Defoe vieles ein in die Geschichte des Gestrandeten, auf sich selbst Gestellten, der später auf den natürlichen Menschen "Freitag" trifft. Lesen kann man es als Zeugnis des englischen Kolonialismus und seiner Abwertung der "Naturvölker". Ökonomen nutzen Robinson gerne als Illustration von volkswirtschaftlichen Problemen. Als Gedankenexperiment stellt die Handlung die Frage, was ein Mensch eigentlich braucht und können muss. Theologisch-philosophisch ist Defoe auch noch, denn Robinson Crusoe hat durch sein Unglück etwas, was heute Seltenheitswert hat: Ruhe und Zeit. Somit kann er tatsächlich einmal nachdenken. Nein, Gefühl trieft hier tatsächlich so gut wie keines.
Heute ist solches schwer lesbar, die kleine Warnung muss ausgesprochen werden. Doch es ist es wert. Gute vier Sterne.
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Robinson Crusoe
Ware in Ordnung. Buch laut meinem Sohn schwierig zu lesen, da Originalsprache. Es ist Klassenlektüre gewesen und in einer anderen Klasse gut angenommen worden.
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A classic
I have to admitt that I was a bit disappointed. I guess 300 years ago the novel was considered really gripping but today it seems a bit boring. Lesen Sie weiter...
Veröffentlicht am 6. April 2009 von Christiane
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Survival by Thinking and Doing
Robinson Crusoe is best taken at two levels, the literal adventure story of survival on an isolated island and as a metaphor for finding one's way through life. Lesen Sie weiter...
Veröffentlicht am 16. März 2007 von Donald Mitchell
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Survival by Thinking and Doing
Robinson Crusoe is best taken at two levels, the literal adventure story of survival on an isolated island and as a metaphor for finding one's way through life. Lesen Sie weiter...
Veröffentlicht am 16. März 2007 von Donald Mitchell
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even if you think you already know it
Because Robinson Crusoe is one of the most known stories in English literature, a lot of people don't consider it worth reading. Lesen Sie weiter...
Veröffentlicht am 4. April 2003 von "danieln133"
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Ein klassisches Werk, das jeder gelesen haben sollte
Dieses Buch, das schon vielen Verfilmungen als Grundlage gedient hat, lohnt sich trotz allem zu lesen. Denn Film ist ja bekanntlich nicht gleich Buch. Lesen Sie weiter...
Veröffentlicht am 7. November 2001 von M_o_m_o70@hotmail.com
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Redemption!
This is a simple, beautifully written story of a young man who rejects the advice of his father and pursues a life at sea. Lesen Sie weiter...
Veröffentlicht am 29. Mai 2000 von David K. Hill
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With Norton Critical Editions readers get the text of the novel and historical and contemporary essays in criticism. Lesen Sie weiter...
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