Name: Les Aventures de Robinson Crusoé: Un roman d'aventures anglais de Daniel Defoe (Tome1) (in French)
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Author: Daniel Defoe
ISBN: 9782322424221

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Les Aventures de Robinson Crusoé: Un roman d'aventures anglais de Daniel Defoe (Tome1) (in French)

Type

Physical Book

Author

Daniel Defoe

Publisher

Books on Demand

Language

French

Pages

320

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

24.6x18.9x1.7 cm

Weight

0.57 kg.

ISBN13

9782322424221

Synopsis "Les Aventures de Robinson Crusoé: Un roman d'aventures anglais de Daniel Defoe (Tome1) (in French)"

En 1651, Robinson Crusoé quitte York, en Angleterre, contre la volonté de ses parents qui voulaient qu'il devienne avocat, pour naviguer. Le navire est abordé par des pirates de Salé et Crusoé devient l'esclave d'un Maure. Il parvient à s'échapper sur un bateau portugais qui passe au large de la côte ouest de l'Afrique. En 1659, alors qu'il a vingt-huit ans, il se joint à une expédition partie à la recherche d'esclaves africains, mais à la suite d'une tempête il est naufragé sur une île à l'embouchure de l'Orénoque au Venezuela. Il fait la découverte d'une grotte et se construit une habitation. Il chasse et cultive le blé. Il apprend à fabriquer de la poterie et élève des chèvres. Il lit la Bible et rien ne lui manque, si ce n'est la compagnie des hommes.

Daniel Defoe

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English writer and journalist, Daniel Defoe is mainly known for his novel Robinson Crusoe (1719), though he also stood out for his role in the development of the press and for his political and social essays

Defoe left his studies to become a discreet businessman, whose activities were not entirely profitable, even receiving prison time for his debts

From 1695, after several years of exile due to his political ideology, he starts a new business dedicated to tiles and bricks which begins to work, providing his family—he was married and had six children—with greater economic stability

However, his political activism leads him to publish several essays or pamphlets that cost him days of imprisonment and the pillory. After returning to jail, Defoe begins working from a magazine supporting political factions of the government, participating in the English secret services

In 1719 he publishes his great novel, Robinson Crusoe, which allows him to launch into a literary career marked by successes such as The Adventures of Captain Singleton, A Journal of the Plague Year, or Moll Flanders. His popularity grew and his influence on subsequent generations of writers by enhancing the novelistic genre is notable

Despite all his success and his connections with the government, Defoe never achieved stable economic solvency for long. His death in 1731 occurred while fleeing from new creditors

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