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| Daniel Defoe. Robinson Crusoe. | | Elibron Classics, 2001, 218 pages |
| | | Ignoring the advice of his father, young Robinson Crusoe leaves England to seek
adventure as a sailor. He has cause to regret his decision when he becomes the lone
survivor of a catastrophic shipwreck on a secluded, uninhabited island. Stranded, with
little food and no companions, Crusoe must learn to fend for himself while battling to
retain his sanity. An innovative entry into the popular travelogue genre, Robinson Crusoe is considered by many to be the first English novel. |
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| Daniel Defoe (1660-1731), list of works | |  | | A political radical, Daniel Defoe spent a sizable portion of his adult life in prison. Keeping his spirits through it all, he turned out a number of satirical pamphlets including "The Shortest Way with the Dissenters." Defoe's longer works feature a deliberate blurring of the boundaries between fiction and nonfiction; A Journal of the Plague Year is a brilliant improvisation on historical record, and his books Moll Flanders and Robinson Crusoe are both fictional works that purport to be factual. |
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