Robinson Crusoe
Format:CD-Audio
Publisher:BBC Audio, A Division Of Random House
Published:10th Jul '08
£10.99
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A BBC Radio 4 full-cast dramatisation of one of the most famous adventure stories of all time, starring Roy Marsden as Robinson Crusoe.
Roy Marsden plays the older Robinson Crusoe looking back on a life of recklessness, daring and adventure – and the survival of twenty-eight years, two months and nineteen days on a desert island.
Young Robinson Crusoe has a burning ambition to be a sailor. Paying no attention to his parents’ warnings he runs away to sea to embark on a series of thrilling adventures: struggles with Barbary pirates, a shipwreck and the extraordinary meeting with Man Friday... Roy Marsden plays the older Robinson Crusoe looking back on a life of recklessness, daring and adventure – and the survival of twenty-eight years, two months and nineteen days on a desert island. Based on the real-life adventures of Alexander Selkirk, Robinson Crusoe was one of the very first adventure stories to be published in English literature. It remains as gripping today as it did on first publication in 1719, and this enthralling dramatisation perfectly evokes the excitement and adventure of the original book.
2 CDs. 2 hrs.
Never since childhood have I been so thoroughly immersed in a book—Jim Crace, 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—Terry Eagleton
Robinson Crusoe has a universal appeal, a story that goes right to the core of existence—Simon Armitage, Guardian
Defoe should surely be credited with inventing the English novel—Mail on Sunday
Defoe was an imaginative genius—John Carey, Sunday Times
ISBN: 9781408400654
Dimensions: 148mm x 126mm x 11mm
Weight: 105g
Unabridged edition