Daniel Defoe, author of the first and best-known survival novel in the English language ... the original title of Robinson Crusoe was The Life and Strange Surprizing Adventures of Robinson ...

Young “Eddie” (as he was then known) took refuge in books. One of them, about English village life ... But the story of Robinson Crusoe, shipwrecked on a deserted island, was among his ...

Over the years, Robinson ... on which all English fiction is based", but Defoe was thought a primitive. Even in the 1980s, when I was writing Crusoe's Daughter, the head of literature at an ...

Megroz’s The Real Robinson Crusoe. The past four years have seen the publication of three distinct and well-researched books ... a distinguished English privateer (or despised pirate, if ...

The story of Robinson ... enchanted the English-speaking world for centuries. Many people first come across the story as a children’s book or a film portrayal, celebrating Crusoe’s ...

Published in 1719, Robinson Crusoe is one of the oldest and most famous adventure stories in English literature. Whilst it is unclear whether Defoe and Selkirk actually met, Defoe would certainly ...

By Sophie Gee Sophie Gee teaches English literature at Princeton ... realist novels — “Vanity Fair,” “Jane Eyre,” “Robinson Crusoe” and “Mansfield Park” — that she read ...