Robinson Crusoe is a novel by Daniel Defoe, first published on 25 April 1719 The
first edition credited the work's protagonist Robinson Crusoe as its author, leading
many readers to believe he was a real person and the book a travelogue of true
incidents.
Epistolary, confessional, and didactic in form, the book is presented as an
autobiography of the title character (whose birth name is Robinson Kreutznaer) – a
castaway who spends 28 years on a remote tropical ...