Robinson Crusoe (Penguin Popular Classics)
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I read this book twice - once in German, when I was younger, and in school in my english lessons. My english teacher gave me the book to read, cause she thought, its easier to learn english by reading books.
Now this book gathered dust and so it is better to gave it to others, who want to read this book, cause books should be read, or?
(c; And so part of LTC - next Stop: Finland
Released on: 18.07.2006
I read this book twice - once in German, when I was younger, and in school in my english lessons. My english teacher gave me the book to read, cause she thought, its easier to learn english by reading books.
Now this book gathered dust and so it is better to gave it to others, who want to read this book, cause books should be read, or?
(c; And so part of LTC - next Stop: Finland
Released on: 18.07.2006
Book arrived safe and sound. Thank you, polarwolf. Your label looks great!
Original title sums up the plot:"The Life and Strange Surprizing Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, of York, Mariner: Who lived Eight and Twenty Years, all alone in an un‐inhabited Island on the Coast of America, near the Mouth of the Great River of Oroonoque; Having been cast on Shore by Shipwreck, wherein all the Men perished but himself. With An Account how he was at last as strangely deliver’d by Pyrates."
Baron Münchhausen's tall tales came to my mind when I was reading of Crusoe's encounters. After having been cast alone on a remote island everything was so easy to him. He managed to do just anything. When he finally got human company, that is Friday, that is immediately so subservient and obedient and also very clever. Crusoe managed to teach him English and Christianity in less than no time. At the end of the story everyone was so grateful to Crusoe. He was such a great benefactor. In fact he acted like a self-made God, creating an own colony to his island after leaving it himself, sending women to men left there. English women to English men, "savages" and Spanish women to Spanish men.
The novel has a reputation and to me it really was a textbook of colonialism and cultural imperialism. It was very hard to keep in mind that Robinson Crusoe and the author were children of their time.
What surprised me was how tedious the story was. Endless detailed descriptions of the utensils Crusoe (so cleverly) made and how he built his "castle". And I read every word!
I'm sorry I kept this book in my shelf for so long. I pass it on ASAP.
2011 "KEEP THEM MOVING" # 33
Picked up the book from our monthly meet-up to be released later on in Kenya.
