Robinson Carusoe

Daniel Defoe's Robinson Crusoe has captivated readers for generations. The story follows Robinson Crusoe who, having been shipwrecked, with him as the only survivor. 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.