Robinson Crusoe is an English adventure novel by Daniel Defoe, first published on 25 April 1719. It is often credited as marking the beginning of realistic fiction as a literary genre, and has been de
Title page from the first edition
The route taken by Robinson Crusoe over the Pyrenees mountains in chapters 19 and 20 of Defoe's novel, as envisaged by Joseph Ribas [fr]
Statue of Robinson Crusoe at Alexander Selkirk's birthplace of Lower Largo in Scotland, by Thomas Stuart Burnett
Book on Alexander Selkirk
Daniel Defoe was an English writer, journalist, merchant and spy. He is famous for his novels Robinson Crusoe, Moll Flanders and Roxana: The Fortunate Mistress. He has been seen as one of the earliest
Robinson Crusoe
…Robinson Crusoe (, KROO-soh, zoh) is an English adventure novel by Daniel Defoe, first published on 25 April 1719. It is often credited as marking the beginning of realistic fiction as a literary genre, and has been described as…
Portrait of Defoe in the style of Sir Godfrey Kneller
Daniel Defoe in the Pillory (Eyre Crowe, 1862)
Title page from Daniel Defoe's: The History of the Union of Great Britain dated 1709 and printed in Edinburgh by the Heirs of Anderson
Glasgow Bridge as Defoe might have seen it in the 18th century