![]() ![]() ![]() The sole survivor of a shipwreck, Robinson Crusoe is washed up on a desert island. Based on the real-life experiences of the castaway Alexander Selkirk, the book has had a perennial appeal among readers of all ages-–especially the young adult reading public–-who continue to find inspiration in the inventive resourcefulness of its hero, sole survivor of a shipwreck who is marooned on an uninhabited island.Įspecially poignant, after more than two decades of unbroken solitude, is the affection that Robinson develops for Friday, another survivor fleeing certain death at the hands of enemy tribesmen from the South American continent. Daniel Defoes Robinson Crusoe, regarded by many to be first novel in English, is also the original tale of a castaway struggling to survive on a remote desert island. ![]() Download cover art Download CD case insert Robinson Crusoeĭaniel Defoe’s The Life and Strange Surprizing Adventures of Robinson Crusoe of York, Mariner (1719) is considered by many the first English novel. This classic story of a shipwrecked mariner on a deserted island is perhaps the greatest adventure in all of English literature. ![]()
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