The Life and Adventures of Robinson Crusoe: By Daniel Defoe

The Life and Adventures of Robinson Crusoe: By Daniel Defoe
ISBN-10
1726216071
ISBN-13
9781726216074
Series
The Life and Adventures of Robinson Crusoe
Pages
316
Language
English
Published
2018-08-26
Publisher
Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Author
Daniel Defoe

Description

Robinson Crusoe is a novel by Daniel Defoe, first published on 25 April 1719. The first edition credited the work's protagonist Robinson Crusoe as its author, leading many readers to believe he was a real person and the book a travelogue of true incidents. Epistolary, confessional, and didactic in form, the book is presented as an autobiography of the title character (whose birth name is Robinson Kreutznaer)-a castaway who spends 28 years on a remote tropical desert island near Trinidad, encountering cannibals, captives, and mutineers, before ultimately being rescued. The story has been thought to be based on the life of Alexander Selkirk, a Scottish castaway who lived for four years on a Pacific island called "Más a Tierra," now part of Chile, which was renamed Robinson Crusoe Island in 1966.

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