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guide by one of our staff editors. Robinson Crusoe / / is a
novel by Daniel Defoe, first published on 25 April 1719. This
first edition credited the work's fictional protagonist Robinson
Crusoe as its author, and was published under the considerably
longer original title The Life and Strange Surprizing Adventures
of Robinson Crusoe, of York, Mariner: Who lived Eight and Twenty
Years, all alone in an un-inhabited Island on the Coast of
America, near the Mouth of the Great River of Oroonoque; Having
been cast on Shore by Shipwreck, wherein all the Men perished
but himself. With An Account how he was at last as strangely
deliver'd by Pirates. Epistolary, confessional, and didactic in
form, the book is a fictional autobiography of the title
character (whose birth name is Robinson Kreutznaer)—a castaway
who spends years on a re