About the Author:
Daniel Defoe (c. 1660–1731) was an English writer,
journalist, and spy, who gained enduring fame for his novel,
Robinson Crusoe. Defoe is notable for being one of the earliest
practitioners of the novel and helped popularize the genre in
Britain. In some texts he is even referred to as one of the
founders, if not the founder, of the English novel. A prolific and
versatile writer, he wrote more than five hundred books, pamphlets,
and journals on various topics (including politics, crime,
religion, marriage, psychology and the supernatural). He was also a
pioneer of economic journalism.
About the Introducer:
Jamaica Kincaid is a Caribbean American writer whose essays,
stories, and novels are evocative portrayals of family
relationships and her native Antigua. Settling in New York City
when she left Antigua at age 16, she became a staff writer at The
New Yorker in 1976. Her books include the short story collection At
the Bottom of the River (1983), the novels Annie John (1984) and
Lucy (1990), the three-part essay A Small Place (1988), the novel
The Autobiography of My Mother (1996) and nonfiction book My
Brother (1997). Her “Talk of the Town” columns for The New Yorker
were collected in Talk Stories (2001), and in 2005 she published
Among Flowers: A Walk in the Himalaya. Her most recent book is the
novel See Now Then (2013).
About the Artist:
Born in Mexico in 1958, Eko is a cartoonist, engraver, and
painter. His wood etchings, often erotic in nature and the focus of
controversial discussion, are part of a broader tradition in
Mexican folk art popularized by José Guadalupe Posada. He has
collaborated on projects for the New York Times, the Frankfurter
Allgemeine Zeitung, and the Spanish daily El País, in addition to
having published numerous books in Mexico and Spain. He is the
illustrator of three books in the Restless Classics series: Don
Quixote, Frankenstein, and Robinson Crusoe.
“There are a couple of ways to read a book written three hundred
years ago. One can read it viewing the world as it was in the time
the book was written, or one can assume today’s societal values and
political correctness. In this edition, readers really can have it
both ways. One can read the text of the book alone and enjoy the
beautiful writing of Daniel Defoe and this rather incredible
adventure story, or one can begin with the amazing introduction by
Jamaica Kincaid and read the book with today’s point of view….
Defoe’s works were groundbreaking and deserve to be read through an
historical lens, giving today’s readers an opportunity to see how
much the world has, thankfully, changed.”
*Manhattan Book Review*
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