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Robinson Crusoe
Jan 14, 2026 4:32 AM

Author:Daniel Defoe

Robinson Crusoe

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

Reviews

Never since childhood have I been so thoroughly immersed in a book

—— 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
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