Crusoe

The bubble economy

source: New Statesman

 UK and Defoe are as much political allegories as historical figures: the apprentice standing for the forces of riot and excess, the novelist for the economic “middling way” he had advocated in that proto-bourgeois self-help manual, Robinson Crusoe. ...

Published Wed, May 20

New on DVD

source: The Hour

 CT Crusoe" -- NBC's period adventure with Philip Winchester and Sam Neill looked great, but got lost amid last fall's network season rollout; $30 for 13 episodes on three discs (plus bonus paperback of Defoe novel), Universal. ...

Published Thu, May 7

New on DVD

source: The Stamford Times

 CT Crusoe" -- nbc's period adventure with Philip Winchester and Sam Neill looked great, but got lost amid last fall's network season rollout; $30 for 13 episodes on three discs (plus bonus paperback of Defoe novel), Universal. ...

Published Thu, May 7

Observing the obscure Gertrude Stein

source: Examiner.com

I am going to write it as simply as Defoe did the autobiography of Robinson Crusoe. And she had and this is it." What results is a memoir both unconventional and conventional, depending on the reader's point of view regarding the book's point of view. ...

Published Fri, Apr 10

Schiffbruch mit und ohne Tiger

source: ORF.at

 Austria Zu seinem berühmtesten Roman "Robinson Crusoe" regten ihn die Berichte über die vier Jahre des Seemannes Alexander Selkirk an, der sich vor der Küste Chiles auf einer der Juan-Fernandez-Inseln aussetzen ließ. Defoe selbst verdiente an "Robinson Crusoe" ...

Published Thu, Mar 26

SOUTH DATEBOOK 3/4

source: Press-Enterprise

 CA The book will be "Robinson Crusoe" by Danuel Defoe. 951-302-7995. Hospital volunteers are needed at the Menifee Valley Medical Center, 28400 McCall Blvd. No experience necessary. A volunteer orientation is set from 8:30 am to noon Thursday. ...

Published Tue, Mar 3

Alexander Hamilton, Modern America’s Founding Father

source: City Journal

 NY When Hamilton was ten, James decamped, drifting until he washed up, old and dying, near the southern Caribbean speck where Defoe shipwrecked Robinson Crusoe. Hamilton’s intelligent, enterprising mother, who’d returned to St. Croix, started a grocery ...

Published Sun, Mar 1

Review: Crusoe 1.1, “Rum and Gunpowder”

source: Television Zombies

Daniel Foe (he changed it to “Defoe” later in life) wrote The Life and Strange Surprising Adventures of Robinson Crusoe in 1719 at the age of 59. And thus begs the first question that one must ask oneself when watching the new NBC ...

Published Sun, Oct 26