Robinson Crusoe (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781974297573)

Robinson Crusoe By Daniel Defoe
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 twenty-eight years on a remote tropical desert island near Trinidad, encountering cannibals, captives, and mutineers, before ultimately being rescued. The story has since been thought to be based on the life of Alexander Selkirk, a Scottish castaway who lived for four years on a Pacific island called "M's a Tierra", now part of Chile, which was renamed Robinson Crusoe Island in 1966, but various literary sources have also been suggested.


Author: Daniel Defoe
ISBN-10: 1974297578
ISBN-13: 9781974297573
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Language: English
Published: 08/07/2017
Pages: 98
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.55lbs
Size: 11.02h x 8.50w x 0.20d