Author: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
Never since childhood have I been so thoroughly immersed in a book
—— Jim Crace , Financial TimesAn 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 EagletonRobinson Crusoe has a universal appeal, a story that goes right to the core of existence
—— Simon Armitage , GuardianDefoe should surely be credited with inventing the English novel
—— Mail on SundayDefoe was an imaginative genius
—— John Carey , Sunday Times






