Its original title must not have fit on the cover: "The Life and Strange Surprizing 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, wherein all the Men perished but himself. Some regard it as the very first modern novel written in the English language, launching the publishing industry.ĭaniel Defoe published Robinson Crusoe on April 25, 1719. This classic tale of adventure features cannibals, captives, and mutineers. The story may be based on the true-life events of Alexander Selkirk, a Scottish castaway who survived four years on a Pacific island, or Henry Pitman, a political rebel surgeon castaway from a Caribbean penal colony. The young Robinson Crusoe is shipwrecked and castaway on a remote tropical island for 28 years. The novel Robinson Crusoe tells the story of a young and impulsive Englishman that defies his parents' wishes and takes to the seas seeking adventure.
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