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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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- Author
- Daniel Defoe
- First published
- 1686
- Editions
- 2,420
- Subjects
- Crusoe, robinson (fictitious character), fiction, British and irish fiction (fictional works by one author), Survival, Fiction, Dans la littérature, Îles, Islands, Naufrages
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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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