Robinson Crusoe: A novel by Daniel Defoe about a castaway who spends 28 years on a remote tropical desert island encountering cannibals captives and m...see more

Robinson Crusoe is a novel by Daniel Defoe first published on 25 April 1719. This first edition credited the works fictional protagonist Robinson Crusoe as its author leading many readers to believe he was a real person and the book a travelogue of true incidents. It was published under the considerably longer original title The Life and Strange Surprizing Adventures of Robinson Crusoe Of York Mariner: Who lived Eight and Twenty Years all alone in an un-inhabited Island on the Coast of America n...See More