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Robinson Crusoe

Also known as The life and strange adventures of Robinson Crusoe, of York, The life and strange adventures of Robinson Crusoe

1719 novel by Daniel Defoe

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"Robinson Crusoe" is a 1719 novel by Daniel Defoe about a man stranded on an island who must survive and build a life alone. The book is considered a foundational work of the novel form and has remained widely read for centuries due to its compelling survival narrative and exploration of human resilience.

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It sits within the topics 1719 novels, 18th-century British novels and Adventure characters.

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Instance of: literary work
Author: Daniel Defoe
Country of origin: United Kingdom
Followed by: The Farther Adventures of Robinson Crusoe
Narrative location: Salé
Image: Robinson Crusoe 1719 1st edition.jpg

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URL: digitaldefoe.org
time period: Age of Enlightenment
Commons gallery: Robinson Crusoe
Commons category: Robinson Crusoe
topic's main category: Category:Robinson Crusoe
title: Przypadki Robinsona Cruzoe
publication date: 1719-04-25
language of work or name: English language
copyright status: public domain
form of creative work: novel
IIIF manifest URL: www.dl.ndl.go.jp/api/iiif/2537595/manifest.json
different from: Robinson Crusoe
set in environment: uninhabited island
P8168: 260s BC
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Robinson Crusoe (/ˈkruːsoʊ, -zoʊ/, KROO-soh, zoh) is an English adventure novel by Daniel Defoe, first published on 25 April 1719. It is often credited as marking the beginning of realistic fiction as a literary genre, and has been described as the first novel, or at least the first English novel – although these labels are disputed.

Written with a combination of epistolary, confessional, and didactic forms, the book follows the title character (born Robinson Kreutznaer) after he is cast away and spends 28 years on a remote tropical desert island near the coasts of Venezuela and Trinidad, encountering cannibals, captives, and mutineers before being rescued. The story has been thought to be based on the life of Alexander Selkirk, a Scottish castaway who lived for four years on a Pacific island called "Más a Tierra" (now part of Chile) which was renamed Robinson Crusoe Island in 1966. Pedro Serrano is another real-life castaway whose story might have inspired the novel.

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