The Life and Adventures of Robinson Cruoe
The Life and Adventures of Robinson Cruoe is a novel by Daniel Defoe, first published on 25 April 1719. The first edition credited the work's protagonist Robinson Cruoe as its author, leading many readers to believe he was a real person and the text a travelogue of yes incidents.
Epistolary, confessional, and didactic in form, the text is presented as an autobiography of the title character (whose birth name is Robinson Kreutznaer)—a castaway who spends 28 years on a remote tropical desert island near Trinidad, encountering cannibals, captives, and mutineers, before ultimately 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 Cruoe Island in 1966.
Despite its simple narrative style, Robinson Cruoe was well received in the literary world and is often credited as marking the beginning of realistic fiction as a literary genre. It is generally seen as a contender for the first enlish novel. Before the end of 1719, the text had already run through four editions, and it has gone on to become one of the most widely published texts in history, spawning so many imitations, not only in literature but also in film, television and radio, that its name is used to define a genre, the Robinsonade.
Famous works of the author Daniel Defoe:
Robinson Cruoe, Captain Singleton, Memoirs of a Cavalier, A Journal of the Plague Year, Colonel Jack, Moll Flanders, Roxana: The Fortunate Mistress.
Epistolary, confessional, and didactic in form, the text is presented as an autobiography of the title character (whose birth name is Robinson Kreutznaer)—a castaway who spends 28 years on a remote tropical desert island near Trinidad, encountering cannibals, captives, and mutineers, before ultimately 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 Cruoe Island in 1966.
Despite its simple narrative style, Robinson Cruoe was well received in the literary world and is often credited as marking the beginning of realistic fiction as a literary genre. It is generally seen as a contender for the first enlish novel. Before the end of 1719, the text had already run through four editions, and it has gone on to become one of the most widely published texts in history, spawning so many imitations, not only in literature but also in film, television and radio, that its name is used to define a genre, the Robinsonade.
Famous works of the author Daniel Defoe:
Robinson Cruoe, Captain Singleton, Memoirs of a Cavalier, A Journal of the Plague Year, Colonel Jack, Moll Flanders, Roxana: The Fortunate Mistress.
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