Robinson Crusoe
Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe, published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform on September 20, 2017, is a classic novel that presents the life and adventures of an English castaway. This edition spans 278 pages and is written in English. The narrative follows Crusoe, who survives a shipwreck and spends 28 years alone on a deserted island near the coast of America, detailing his encounters with Native Americans, captives, and mutineers.
Readers will find a fictional autobiography that employs a “false document” style, offering a realistic frame story to Crusoe’s extraordinary experiences. The book explores themes of survival and adventure, immersing readers in the historical context of the early 18th century. With its blend of action and adventure, Robinson Crusoe remains a significant work in the canon of English literature.
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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, where in all the Men perished but Himself. With An Account how he was at last as strangely deliver’d by Pyrates) is a novel by Daniel Defoe, first published in 1719 and sometimes regarded as the first novel in English. The book is a fictional autobiography of the title character, an English castaway who spends 28 years on a remote tropical island near Venezuela, encountering Native Americans, captives, and mutineers before being rescued. This device, presenting an account of supposedly factual events, is known as a “false document” and gives a realistic frame story.
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