Robinson Crusoe - Pocket Classics, C-45 Author:Daniel Defoe, John Norwood Fago (Adapter), E. R. Cruz (Illustrator) Pocket Classics are not "comic books"...they are small "paperback" books (61 pages). They are illustrated retellings of classic stories in B&W comic book type artwork. They all use the interior B&W artwork from the 1970's Pendulum Classics series in a slightly smaller format. — Adapter: John Norwood Fago ... more »Illustrator: E. R. Cruz
This classic story of a shipwrecked mariner on a deserted island is perhaps the greatest adventure in all of English literature. Fleeing from pirates, Robinson Crusoe is swept ashore in a storm possessing only a knife, a box of tobacco, a pipe-and the will to survive. His is the saga of a man alone: a man who overcomes self-pity and despair to reconstruct his life; who painstakingly teaches himself how to fashion a pot, bake bread, build a canoe; and who, after twenty-four agonizing years of solitude, discovers a human footprint in the sand... « less