ROBINSON CRUSOE: UNABRIDGED

by Daniel Defoe, Bryan A. Hunt (Contributor), A.J. Alexander (Contributor)

Robinson Crusoe is the adventure story of a shipwreck survivor who spends 28 years on a remote tropical desert island, encountering cannibals, captives, and mutineers. Crusoe must fend for his life to survive - with the hope of someday being rescued.Robinson Crusoe is a novel by Daniel Defoe, that has been told for more than three centuries. It is written as a first-person account of his adventures, leading reads to believe the book was an actual account of a real person. This classic novel is often considered to be the first novel written in the English language, as well as the first example of realist fiction as a literary genre.

371 pages, Paperback

Published March 18, 2021

About the author

Daniel Defoe was an English novelist, journalist, merchant, pamphleteer and spy. He is most famous for his novel Robinson Crusoe, published in 1719, which is claimed to be second only to the Bible in its number of translations. He has been seen as one of the earliest proponents of the English novel, and helped to popularise the form in Britain with others such as Aphra Behn and Samuel Richardson. Defoe wrote many political tracts, was often in trouble with the authorities, and spent a period in prison. Intellectuals and political leaders paid attention to his fresh ideas and sometimes consulted him.
Defoe was a prolific and versatile writer, producing more than three hundred works—books, pamphlets, and journals—on diverse topics, including politics, crime, religion, marriage, psychology and the supernatural. He was also a pioneer of business journalism and economic journalism.