Robinson Crusoe
Author: Daniel Defoe
Daniel Defoe’s great masterpiece, in a gorgeous new clothbound edition designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith. These delectable and collectible Penguin editions are bound in high-quality colourful, tactile cloth with foil stamped into the design ‘I walk’d about on the shore, lifting up my hands, and my whole being, as I may say, wrapt up in the contemplation….Read More
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