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This new edition of Defoe's masterpiece includes a lively introduction by Tom Keymer, full notes and useful appendices, including a chronology of the action of the story and Defoe's most sustained commentary on it.
Daniel Defoes Robinson Crusoe was first published on April 25, 1719 during the age of exploration and enlightenment. The world was actively explored, mapped, settled, and reported back to various European ports and capitals. Readers in the 1700s considere...
«En cualquier monumento que merezca recibir el nombre de tal, los nombres de Molí Flanders y Roxana deberían, por lo menos, grabarse tan profundamente como el de Defoe. Se ubican entre las pocas novelas inglesas que indiscutiblemente...
A Plan of the English Commerce is a rare piece of economic history covering the crucial period at the outset of the first Industrial Revolution and the early wave of globalization. Unlike other chroniclers of British economic development, Defoe was contem...