What is Robinson Crusoe?
{{Infobox book | name = Robinson Crusoe | title_orig = | translator = | image = Robinson Crusoe 1719 1st edition.jpg | caption = Title page from the first edition | author = [[Daniel Defoe]] | illustrator = Single engraving by John Clark and [[John Pine]] after design by unknown artist<ref>{{cite web|title=The Primitive Crusoe, 1719–1780.|url=http://www.camden.rutgers.edu/Camden/Crusoe/Pages/PrimitiveCrusoe.html|publisher=Picturing the First Castaway: the Illustrations of Robinson Crusoe - Paul Wilson and Michael Eck|accessdate=25 June 2012|archive-date=28 March 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130328073521/http://www.camden.rutgers.edu/Camden/Crusoe/Pages/PrimitiveCrusoe.html|url-status=dead}}</ref> | cover_artist = | country = United Kingdom | language = English | series = | genre = adventure, historical fiction | publisher = W. Taylor | release_date = {{start date and age|1719|4|25|df=y|p=y}} | english_release_date = | preceded_by = | followed_by = [[:en:The_Farther_Adventures_of_Robinson_Crusoe|The Farther Adventures of Robinson Crusoe]] }} '''''Robinson Crusoe''''' is a [[novel]] written by [[Daniel Defoe]]. It was first published on 25 April 1719 by William Taylor.<ref name=crowley >{{cite book |last1=Defoe |first1=Daniel |title=Robinson Crusoe |year=1983 |origyear=1719 |editor1-last=Crowley |editor1-first=J. Donald |edition=The World's Classics |location= |publisher=Oxford University Press |isbn= 0-19-281555-5 }}</ref>{{rp|xxv}} The novel's full title is ''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 Pyrates''.<ref name=crowley />{{rp|iii}} The book is a fictional autobiography of the title char