{"product_id":"robinson-crusoe-daniel-defoe-9781613823248","title":"Robinson Crusoe","description":"\u003cb\u003eRestless Classics presents the Three-Hundredth Anniversary Edition of \u003ci\u003eRobinson Crusoe\u003c\/i\u003e, the classic Caribbean adventure story and foundational English novel, with new illustrations and an introduction by rising Jamaican writer Garnette Cadogan that contextualizes the book for our globalized, postcolonial era.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWhen Daniel Defoe published Robinson Crusoe in 1719, many of the readers who quickly became obsessed with the adventure story were convinced that it was a true-life travelogue written by its protagonist. Its original, full title drew them in: \u003ci\u003eThe Life and Strange Surprizing Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, Of York, Mariner: Who lived Eight and Twenty Years, all alone in an un-inhabited Island on the Coast of America, near the Mouth of the Great River of Oroonoque; Having been cast on Shore by Shipwreck, wherein all the Men perished but himself. With An Account how he was at last as strangely deliver'd by Pyrates\u003c\/i\u003e. Three centuries later, the book remains a classic of the adventure genre and is widely considered the first great English novel. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e The book also has much to teach us, in retrospect, about entrenched attitudes of the colonizers toward the colonized, and it stands at the beginning of a long tradition of colonial literature and representation that still resounds today. Now with a new introduction by rising Jamaican-born journalist and scholar Garnette Cadogan and vivid illustrations by the Mexican artist Eko, the Restless Classics edition of Robinson Crusoe invites readers to reconsider this tale of a castaway who spends thirty years on a remote tropical island near Trinidad, encountering cannibals, captives, and mutineers before ultimately being rescued.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Daniel Defoe\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 161382324X\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781613823248\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Simon \u0026amp; Brown\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 02\/28\/2012\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 296\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.88lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.62d","brand":"Daniel Defoe","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48800438092031,"sku":"9781613823248","price":12.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/robinson-crusoe-daniel-defoe-9781613823248","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}