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A beautiful deluxe gift edition of Defoe’s shipwreck classic with foiled covers, marbled endpapers, sprayed edges, beautiful paper and finished with a silk ribbon.

Robinson Crusoe runs away from home to join the navy. After a series of adventures at sea, he is shipwrecked in a devastating storm, and finds himself alone on a remote desert island. He remains there many years, building a life for himself in solitude, until the day he discovers another man’s footprint in the sand…

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Publisher Review

Never since childhood have I been so thoroughly immersed in a book-Financial Times

An 18th-century reader, raised on a high-minded diet of elegy and pastoral, must have felt stunned on first encountering the jagged prose of a Daniel Defoe, with its street-wise populism and delight in the commonplace-

Robinson Crusoe has a universal appeal, a story that goes right to the core of existence-Guardian

Defoe should surely be credited with inventing the English novel-Mail on Sunday

Defoe was an imaginative genius-Sunday Times