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The complete online text of The Life and Adventures of Robinson Crusoe of York, Mariner, Volume 1 by Daniel Defoe.

The English novelist, journalist, poet, and government agent Daniel Defoe (1660-1731) wrote more than 500 books, pamphlets, articles, and poems. Among the most productive authors of the Augustan Age, he was the first of the great 18th-century English nov...

Defoe's modern literary reputation is based almost entirely on the series of prose narratives that he wrote from 1719 to 1724. In April of 1719 Robinson Crusoe was published; with the success of that work, he went on to write a sequel which was only slig...

Daniel Defoe's modern literary reputation is based almost entirely on the series of prose narratives that he wrote from 1719 to 1724. In April of 1719 Robinson Crusoe was published; with the success of that work, he went on to write a sequel that was onl...

Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe Apolitical activist, journalist, merchant, and religious rebel, Daniel Defoe was in a unique position to write about his times. Born the year the Restoration began, Defoe was a middle-class merchant who went bankrupt...

Robinson Crusoe is a novel by Daniel Defoe, first published in 1719 and sometimes regarded as the first novel in English. The book is a fictional autobiography of the title character, an English castaway who spends 28 years on a remote tropical island,...

Film de George Miller y Rod Hardy La novela de Daniel De Foë, escrita como sátira del mundo moderno hace la friolera de doscientos cincuenta años, lleva casi dos siglos y medio convertida en un clásico que se lee de generación en...

TRANSLATION STUDIES HAS CHANGED significantly over the last thirty years from applied linguistics to a much closer relationship with a cultural studies "concerned primarily with questions of power relations and textual production" (Bassnett 135). The relationship between the text, the translator, and the two...

What's in a name? If the name is Friday, shame and ridicule, according to Italian judges who forbade a couple from naming their child like the character in "Robinson Crusoe.""They thought that it recalled the figure of a savage, thus creating a sense of inferiority...

Friday's child is loving and giving — but not if he lives in Italy.Italian judges forbade a couple from naming their son Friday, saying it would bring the child shame and ridicule to be named after the character in "Robinson Crusoe.""They thought that it recalled...

In the following excerpt, Rogers outlines various positions that critics have taken in interpreting Robinson Crusoe and discusses Defoe's religious background and the novel's treatment of sin.

Here, McKeon discusses Crusoe's spiritualization of events and life on the island and explores possible identifications of original sin in the novel.

In the following excerpt, Zimmerman explores problems in narrative consistency in Robinson Crusoe and contends that The Farther Adventures adds psychological aspects to the theological ideas found in the first novel.

Examines Robinson Crusoe, by Daniel DeFoe. Discusses the conflict between religion and self-interest in the novel. Analyzes Crusoe's moral superiority.

Evaluates the ever changing relationship between Robinson Crusoe and God, and how this relationship effects Crusoe's life.

Essay provides a comparison of "Robinson Crusoe" and "20,000 Leagues under the Sea."