Name: Robinson Crusoe Level 4 Intermediate Book and Audio CD [With CDROM and CD (Audio)]
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Author: Daniel Defoe
ISBN: 9788483235508

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Robinson Crusoe Level 4 Intermediate Book and Audio CD [With CDROM and CD (Audio)]

Type

Physical Book

Author

Daniel Defoe

Adapted by

Nicholas Murgatroyd

Publisher

Cambridge University Press

Year

2009

Language

English

Pages

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

20.6 x 14.5 x 1.0 cm

Weight

0.23 kg.

ISBN

8483235501

ISBN13

9788483235508

Edited in

España

Edition No.

Synopsis "Robinson Crusoe Level 4 Intermediate Book and Audio CD [With CDROM and CD (Audio)]"

This award-winning graded readers series is full of original fiction, adapted fiction and factbooks especially written for teenagers. An adaptation of the classic story about a young man who is shipwrecked on an island. Crusoe eventually meets another person on the island and their friendship leads to his escape and return to the country he left as a young man, almost thirty years before. This is a British English version of the title. The book comes with a CD-ROM and Audio CD with vocabulary games and complete text recordings. Cambridge Experience Readers, previously called Cambridge Discovery Readers, get your students hooked on reading.

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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