The complete online text of The Life and Adventures of Robinson Crusoe (1808) 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...

DANIEL DEFOE: His Life By Paula R. Backsheider Johns Hopkins. 671 pp. $29.95 DANIEL DEFOE'S chief claim to fame is as the author of a number of proto-novels, notably the classic Robinson Crusoe, and his innovative Tour through the Whole Island...

Monarch Notes 01-01-1963 Robinson Crusoe: Chapters 39 - 44 Chapter Thirty-Nine After two or three days, the men return to Crusoe's castle. Crusoe teaches Friday everything proper to make him useful and helpful, particularly how to speak. Friday is an apt scholar; he is...