About this ebook
After surviving a shipwreck Robinson Crusoe finds himself stranded on a desert island with few provisions. Overcoming his initial despair he forges a life on the remote island using when he can scrounge from the wreck and his own ingenuity. As time passes he encounters other marooned individuals and a tribe a vicious cannibals. Eventually joined by a freed prisoner, called Friday, Crusoe endures twenty-seven years on the island before a ship commandeered by mutineers comes near the island and offers the chance of escape. Published in 1719, the book is the original castaway story and his been adapted for stage and screen dozens of times since it first appeared.
About the author
English author Daniel Defoe was at times a trader, political activist, criminal, spy and writer, and is considered to be one of England's first journalists. A prolific writer, Defoe is known to have used at least 198 pen names over the course of a career in which he produced more than five hundred written works. Defoe is best-known for his novels detailing the adventures of the castaway Robinson Crusoe, which helped establish and popularize the novel in eighteenth century England. In addition to Robinson Crusoe, Defoe penned other famous works including Captain Singleton, A Journal of the Plague Year, Captain Jack, Moll Flanders and Roxana. Defoe died in 1731.
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