Robinson Crusoe – Daniel Defoe

سبتمبر 11, 2016

Robinson Crusoe – Daniel Defoe

Robinson Crusoe is a novel written by Daniel Defoe, which is first published on 25 April 1719. This first

edition credited the work’s 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 Surprising 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, near the Mouth of the Great River of Oroonoque; Having been cast on Shore by Shipwreck,

wherein all the Men perished but himself. With An Account how he was at last as strangely delivered by

Pyrates. Epistolary, confessional, and didactic in form, the book is a fictional autobiography of the title

character a castaway who spends years on a remote tropical island near Trinidad, encountering

cannibals, captives, and mutineers before being rescued

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سبتمبر 11, 2016