Details

ISBN-10: 1632061198
ISBN-13: 9781632061195
Publisher: Restless Books
Publish Date: 08/27/2019
Dimensions: 8.20" L, 5.50" W, 1.00" H

Robinson Crusoe: 300th Anniversary Edition

Illustrator: Eko
Introduction by: Jamaica Kincaid

Paperback

Price: $19.99

Overview

Restless Classics presents the Three-Hundredth Anniversary Edition of Robinson Crusoe, the classic Caribbean adventure story and foundational English novel, with new illustrations by Eko and an introduction by Jamaica Kincaid that contextualizes the book for our globalized, postcolonial era.
Three centuries after Daniel Defoe published Robinson Crusoe, this gripping tale of a castaway who spends thirty years on a remote tropical island near Trinidad, encountering cannibals, captives, and mutineers before being ultimately rescued, remains a classic of the adventure genre and is widely considered the first great English novel.

But the book also has much to teach us, in retrospect, about entrenched attitudes of colonizers toward the colonized that still resound today. As celebrated Caribbean writer Jamaica Kincaid writes in her bold new introduction, “The vivid, vibrant, subtle, important role of the tale of Robinson Crusoe, with his triumph of individual resilience and ingenuity wrapped up in his European, which is to say white, identity, has played in the long, uninterrupted literature of European conquest of the rest of the world must not be dismissed or ignored or silenced.”

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"There are a couple of ways to read a book written three hundred years ago. One can read it viewing the world as it was in the time the book was written, or one can assume today's societal values and political correctness. In this edition, readers really can have it both ways. One can read the text of the book alone and enjoy the beautiful writing of Daniel Defoe and this rather incredible adventure story, or one can begin with the amazing introduction by Jamaica Kincaid and read the book with today's point of view.... Defoe's works were groundbreaking and deserve to be read through an historical lens, giving today's readers an opportunity to see how much the world has, thankfully, changed."–Rosi Hollinbeck "Manhattan Book Review"
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Details

ISBN-10: 1632061198
ISBN-13: 9781632061195
Publisher: Restless Books
Publish Date: 08/27/2019
Dimensions: 8.20" L, 5.50" W, 1.00" H
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