Rank 58 of 100
Robinson Crusoe
Synopsis
A restless Englishman ignores his father’s advice, goes to sea, and spends years alone on an island making pots, a shelter, and a ledger of his own sins. Defoe’s book is the pattern for every later castaway story, and it carries the colonial assumptions of the man doing the surviving.
Synopses are original catalog copy written for Every Book Ever, not publisher blurbs.
Catalogue card
- Year
- 1719
- Language
- English
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Form
- Novel
- Genre
- Adventure
- Audience
- Adult
- Era
- 18th century
- Movement
- Early novel
- Series
- —
- Length
- About 320 pages
- Reported copies
- Among the most reprinted novels
- Kind
- Fiction