Literary critics label these stories ‘robinsonades,’ and they range from much loved classics such as The Jungle Book to obscure comic book series like Space Family Robinson. Since then, countless novels, films and television series have drawn upon Crusoe’s novel. Children’s chapter book versions were first published in the seventeenth century. It has been published in so many shapes and sizes so many times that almost everyone is familiar with the story of Robinson Crusoe. Fortunately, the novel has been retold and repackaged in more digestible forms. Defoe’s prose is relentlessly long winded and the book’s eye catching title squashes any element of surprise that the plot might have mustered. With An Account how he was at last as strangely deliver’d by Pirates’ these days. A Quick and Easy Guide to Becoming Maroonedįew people actually read ‘The 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.
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