Robinson Crusoe

by Daniel Defoe

Overview

Daniel Defoe's classic castaway adventure tale, Robinson Crusoe is a fictional autobiography where in which the title character spends 28 years as a castaway on a remote island. Published in 1719, it is considered to be one of the first castaway novels ever written.

Product Details

BN ID:	2940013116900
Publisher:	C&C Web Press
Publication date:	07/25/2008
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
File size:	971 KB

About the Author

Daniel Defoe (1660–1731) was an English author best known for his adventure novel, Robinson Crusoe, that he wrote later in life. A prolific writer, Defoe authored several books on economics, history, biography and crime. He pursued a variety of careers including merchant, soldier, secret agent and political pamphleteer, but is best remembered for his fiction. Daniel Defoe's other widely read books include Roxana, Moll Flanders and A Journal of the Plague Year. The name of the Robinson Crusoe Island, located in the South Pacific Ocean off the coast of Chile, was inspired by Defoe's famous story.