Daniel Defoe's story of a sailor shipwrecked alone on an island has been read aloud, abridged, argued over and reissued for as long as English novels have existed. Crusoe loses his ship and his companions, comes ashore with little, and sets about making a life: a shelter, a calendar, crops, goats, a boat he cannot launch. Later he finds a footprint in the sand, and the solitary life becomes something else — a book about company, fear and authority as much as survival.
This edition comes from M. D. Gunasena & Co., a long-established Colombo publishing house, as part of its Timeless Classics series of well-known works of literature issued in English. The series gathers titles from different periods and kinds of writing under a single imprint.
Suited to readers meeting Crusoe for the first time, to students reading the novel for school or coursework, and to households building a shelf of standard English-language titles. Readers outside Sri Lanka who want a book published on the island, rather than a familiar international reprint, will find this a locally produced copy of a very widely read novel.
- Author: Daniel Defoe
- Publisher: M. D. Gunasena & Co. (Pvt) Ltd
- Language: English
- ISBN: 9789552132902
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