Robinson Crusoe [Paperback]

Defoe's castaway keeps a ledger of his island years, counting seasons, crops, tools and losses with the same steady attention he once gave to trade. The Penguin Select Classics paperback carries the story across 320 pages. Much of the book's hold comes from the practical detail: building shelter, firing pottery, taming goats, marking a calendar on a post. Later chapters bring Friday into the narrative and turn the story towards questions of authority and belief that readers have argued over ever since. Written as a first person account, it helped establish the shape of the English novel itself. How it reads: • 320-page Penguin Select Classics paperback • Told as a survivor's own running account • Detailed on shelter, farming and improvised tools • Often cited among the earliest English novels Recommended for readers of classic adventure and for students tracing the beginnings of the novel, published under Penguin Select Classics and available at Boipoka.