The Life and Adventures of Robinson Crusoe

Daniel Defoe (1660-1731)

Original en 120687 words First published 1719 United Kingdom

Defoe's 1719 novel, often called the first English novel: the fictional memoir of a man who, against his father's advice, goes to sea, is shipwrecked, and survives twenty-eight years alone on a Caribbean island. Building shelter, growing barley, taming goats, rescuing the mutinous Friday — Crusoe's practical ingenuity made the book an instant, lasting success, and made 'Robinson Crusoe' a byword for self-reliance. A story of survival that is also, quietly, a spiritual autobiography of sin, Providence and repentance.

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The Life and Adventures of Robinson Crusoe

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