Daniel Defoe

The Life and Adventures of Robinson Crusoe (Annotated) Daniel Defoe

Differentiated book- It has a historical context with research of the time-Robinson Crusoe is one of the most famous works of the famous English writer Daniel Defoe, published in 1719 and considered the first English novel. It is a fictional autobiography of the protagonist, an English castaway who spends 28 years on a remote desert island. Probably the story was inspired by real events that happened to Alexander Selkirk, from where he would build, with a simple and authentic plot, a symbol of colonialism, the perfect man and supreme morality. Robinson Crusoe is the classic adventure novel by antonomasia. Although this work is generally known simply by the name of the protagonist, the original title, as it appears on the cover of its first edition is, The life and incredible adventures of Robinson Crusoe, of York, sailor, who lived entirely alone for twenty-eight years on an uninhabited island off the coast of America, near the mouth of the great Orinoco River; having been dragged to the shore after a shipwreck, in which all the men died except him. With an explanation of how in the end he was unusually freed by pirates. Written by himself. Robinson Crusoe is a York sailor who, on a boat expedition through Africa,