Robinson Crusoe
Daniel Defoe
Discover the legendary story of a marine adventurer shipwrecked on a desert island.
Robinson Crusoe runs away from home to join the navy. After a series of adventures at sea, he is shipwrecked in a devastating storm, and finds himself alone on a remote desert island. He remains there many years, building a life for himself in solitude, until the day he discovers another man's footprint in the sand...
‘Robinson Crusoe has a universal appeal, a story that goes right to the core of existence’ Guardian
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Jim Crace
Financial Times
An 18th-century reader, raised on a high-minded diet of elegy and pastoral, must have felt stunned on first encountering the jagged prose of a Daniel Defoe, with its street-wise populism and delight in the commonplace
Terry Eagleton Robinson Crusoe has a universal appeal, a story that goes right to the core of existence
Simon Armitage
Guardian
Defoe should surely be credited with inventing the English novel
Mail on Sunday
Defoe was an imaginative genius
John Carey
Sunday Times