Robinson Crusoe

Robinson Crusoe

Daniel Defoe wrote and published Robinson Crusoe, widely regarded as the first English novel, in 1719. Robinson Crusoe tells the story of one man's survival on a desert island after being shipwrecked. The book was published in 1719 without Defoe's name, and it was presented to the public as a true account of real events, documented by a real man named Crusoe. However, readers were skeptical right away. The novel was published the same year that a man named Charles Gildon published Robinson Crusoe Examin'd and Criticis'd, in which he demonstrated that Robinson Crusoe was made up and the events of the novel were fiction. Psst… by the way, the name 'Crusoe' may have been derived from Timothy Cruso, Defoe's classmate. Do you need more reasons to read the Robinson Crusoe book? Well, because a child's imagination is captured in it by the experiences of a man shipwrecked alone on a desert island and his discovery of a footprint.