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Description
September 1, 1651.
With a passion and longing for the sea, Robinson Crusoe sets on a sea voyage, much against the wishes of his family, only to survive a shipwreck. But he doesn’ t give up.
And after a series of adventurous journeys, eight years later on the same day of September, Crusoe sets sail again. Caught in a sea storm, he is washed ashore on a deserted island after the shipwreck. The sole human survivor, along with a dog and two cats, Crusoe builds his life with whatever is available around, and begins to contemplate and consider his situation.
“ Evil: I am cast upon a horrible, desolate island, void of all hope of recovery.
Good: But I am alive; and not drowned, as all my ship's company were.
Will his adventures end here,
or is there more in store for him?
Establishing realistic fiction as a literary genre, Daniel Defoe’ s Robinson Crusoe is regarded as the first English novel. With simple characters and an exceptional interpretation of life, it went on to become a literary masterpiece. The novel has undergone various adaptions and continues to remain an epic.
About the Author
One of the significant founders of the English novel and a pioneer of economic journalism, Daniel Defoe was born in London, England, sometime around the year 1659-60, the exact date being uncertain. An Essay upon Projects (1697) was Defoe’ s first publication. Defoe’ s first work of fiction was Robinson Crusoe. Published in 1719 when he was sixty, it was considered the first English novel. It established realistic fiction as a literary genre. Some of Defoe’ s works published in rapid succession include Memoirs of a Cavalier (1720); Captain Singleton (1720), Moll Flanders (1722); Colonel Jacque (1722); A Journal of the Plague Year (1722); and Roxana (1724). Defoe breathed his last on April 24, 1731.