The Life and Adventures of Robinson Crusoe: Classic Illustrated Edition Kindle Edition

#2 on The Guardian's Top 100 Best Novels List!Robinson Crusoe is a novel by Daniel Defoe, first published on 25 April 1719.The book is presented as an autobiography of the title character—a castaway who spends 28 years on a remote tropical desert island near Trinidad, encountering cannibals, captives, and mutineers, before ultimately being rescued. Despite its simple narrative style, Robinson Crusoe was well received in the literary world and is often credited as marking the beginning of realistic fiction as a literary genre. It is generally seen as a contender for the first English novel.Before the end of 1719, the book had already run through four editions, and it has gone on to become one of the most widely published books in history, spawning so many imitations, not only in literature but also in film, television and radio, that its name is used to define a genre, the Robinsonade.A True Classic that Belongs on Every Bookshelf! Read more