A new, beautifully laid-out edition of Daniel Defoe's 1719 classic adventure story. This edition contains both volumes of the Robinson Crusoe saga, often sold separately: The Life and Adventures of Robinson Crusoe and The Further Adventures of Robinson Crusoe.Robinson Crusoe is the shipwreck adventure story -- framed as the autobiography of a castaway who spends 28 years on a remote tropical desert island, encountering cannibals, captives, and mutineers, before ultimately being rescued. It is often considered to be the first English language novel and to be the first example of realist fiction as a literary genre.