{"product_id":"robinson-crusoe-9780553213737","title":"Robinson Crusoe","description":"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, \u003cb\u003eRobinson Crusoe\u003c\/b\u003e has taken its rightful place among the great myths of Western civilization.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDaniel Defoe was born Daniel Foe in London in 1660. It was perhaps, ineveitable that Defoe, an outspoken man, would become a political journalist. As a Puritan he believed God had given him a mission to print the truth, that is, to proselytize on religion and politics, and in fact, he became a prolific pamphleteer satirizing the hypocrisies of both Church and State. Defoe admired William III, and his poem \u003ci\u003eThe True-Born Englishman \u003c\/i\u003e(1701) won him the King's friendship. But an ill-timed satire on High Church extremists, The Shortest Way with the Dissenters, published during Queen Anne's reign, resulted in his being pilloried and imprisoned for seditious libel in 1703. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAt fifty-nine Defoe turned to fiction, completing \u003ci\u003eThe Life and Strange Surprising Adventures of Robinson Crusoe\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e(1719), partly based on the saga of Alexander Selkirk, a Scottish sailor; \u003cb\u003eMoll Flanders\u003c\/b\u003e (1722); \u003ci\u003eColonel Jack\u003c\/i\u003e (1722); \u003ci\u003eA Journal of the Plague Years\u003cb\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e(1722); and \u003ci\u003eRoxana or the Fortunate Mistress\u003c\/i\u003e (1724).\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Bantam Classics","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50412654592274,"sku":"9780553213737","price":5.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_19b74076-2849-4f7f-a5a4-3f30277a012d.jpg?v=1764754011","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/robinson-crusoe-9780553213737","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}