Daniel Defoe

Robinson Crusoe Daniel Defoe

Publisher Marketing: Robinson Crusoe is a novel by Daniel Defoe, first published on 25 April 1719. This first edition credited the work's fictional protagonist Robinson Crusoe as its author, leading many readers to believe he was a real person and the book a travelogue of true incidents. It was published under the considerably longer original title The Life and Strange Surprizing Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, Of York, Mariner: Who lived Eight and Twenty Years, all alone in an un-inhabited Island on the Coast of America, near the Mouth of the Great River of Oroonoque; Having been cast on Shore by Shipwreck, wherein all the Men perished but himself. With An Account how he was at last as strangely deliver'd by Pyrates. Epistolary, confessional, and didactic in form, the book is a fictional autobiography of the title character (whose birth name is Robinson Kreutznaer)-a castaway who spends years on a remote tropical island near Trinidad, encountering cannibals, captives, and mutineers before being rescued. The story is widely perceived to have been influenced by the life of Alexander Selkirk, a Scottish castaway who lived for four years on the Pacific island called "Mas a Tierra" (in 1966 its name was changed to Robinson Crusoe Island), Chile. However, other possible sources have been put forward for the text. It is possible, for example, that Defoe was inspired by the Latin or English translations of Ibn Tufail's Hayy ibn Yaqdhan, an earlier novel also set on a desert island. Another source for Defoe's novel may have been Robert Knox's account of his abduction by the King of Ceylon in 1659 in "An Historical Account of the Island Ceylon," Glasgow: James MacLehose and Sons (Publishers to the University), 1911." Review Citations: Wilson Senior High Core Col 01/01/2011 pg. 916 (EAN 9780199553976, Paperback) Criticas 01/01/2009 pg. 1 (EAN 9788498720013, Hardcover) Booklist Editors Choice/Media 01/01/2009 pg. 18 (EAN 9781400136926, Compact Disc) Audio File 12/01/2008 pg. 42 (EAN 9781400106929, Compact Disc) Wilson Senior High Core Col 01/01/2007 pg. 4741 (EAN 9780192833426, Paperback) Wilson Fiction Catalog 01/01/2010 pg. 154 (EAN 9780192833426, Paperback) Wilson Middle/Junior Hi Catalo 01/01/2009 pg. 818 (EAN 9780192833426, Paperback) Wilson Fiction Catalog 01/01/2014 pg. 201 (EAN 9780192833426, Paperback) Booklist 02/15/2006 pg. 99 (EAN 9781402726644, Hardcover) Hornbook Guide to Children 07/01/2006 pg. 327 (EAN 9781402726644, Hardcover) Wilson Children's Catalog 01/01/1991 pg. 478 (EAN 9780899664033, Library Binding) Hornbook Guide to Children 01/01/1991 (EAN 9780891076018, Hardcover) Wilson Children's Catalog 01/01/1991 pg. 478 (EAN 9780884115946, Hardcover) PW Notes and Reprints 11/04/2002 pg. 87 (EAN 9780689851049, Library Binding) Booklist 03/01/2003 pg. 1198 (EAN 9780689851049, Library Binding) School Library Journal 04/01/2003 pg. 157 (EAN 9780689851049, Library Binding) Hornbook Guide to Children 01/01/2003 pg. 365 (EAN 9780689851049, Library Binding) Hornbook Guide to Children 07/01/2003 pg. 365 (EAN 9780689851049, Library Binding) Publishers Weekly 11/04/2002 (EAN 9780689851049, Library Binding) Hornbook Guide to Children 07/01/2002 pg. 65 (EAN 9780762414192, Hardcover) Hornbook Guide to Children 01/01/2003 pg. 65 (EAN 9780762414192, Hardcover) Ingram Children's Advance 05/01/2001 pg. 72 (EAN 9780689844089, Paperback) Wilson Children's Catalog 01/01/1991 pg. 478 (EAN 9780684179469, Hardcover) Wilson Fiction Catalog 01/01/2006 pg. 234 (EAN 9780679405856, Hardcover) Wilson Children's Catalog 01/01/1991 pg. 478 (EAN 9780553213737, Mass Market Paperbound) School Library Journal 12/01/2000 (EAN 9780001052420, Analog Audio Cassette) Wilson Children's Catalog 01/01/1991 pg. 478 (EAN 9780451522368, Mass Market Paperbound) Hornbook Guide to Children 01/01/2012 pg. 67 (EAN 9781402784064, Hardcover) Kirkus Reviews 05/01/2011 (EAN 9780764144516, Paperback) Hornbook Guide to Children 07/01/2011 (EAN 9780764144516, Paperback) Hornbook Guide to Children 07/01/2011 (EAN 9780764163036, Hardcover) Kirkus Reviews 06/15/2010 (EAN 9789380028200, Paperback) Wilson Children's Catalog 01/01/1991 pg. 478 (EAN 9780606084659, Prebound-Sewn) Hornbook Guide to Children 07/01/1998 pg. 64 (EAN 9780789436252, Hardcover) Hornbook Guide to Children 01/01/1999 pg. 64 (EAN 9780789436252, Hardcover) Contributor Bio:  Defoe, Daniel Daniel Defoe was the author of "Moll Flanders "and "Robinson Crusoe".