     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, leading many readers to believe he was a real person and the book a travelogue of true incidents.fiction as authentic as fact it 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 pyrates. epistolary, confessional, and didactic in form, the book is a fictional autobiography of the title character (whose birth name is robinson kreutznaer)âa castaway who spends years on a remote tropical island near trinidad, encountering cannibals, captives, and mutineers before being rescued. the story is widely perceived to have been influenced by the life of alexander selkirk, a scottish castaway who lived for four years on the pacific island called "mÃ¡s a tierra", now considered part of chile, which was renamed to robinson crusoe island in 1966. other possible sources for the primary narrative have also been suggested. for example, defoe might have been inspired by the latin or english translations of ibn tufail's hayy ibn yaqdhan, an earlier novel also set on a desert island.nawal muhammad hassan (1980), hayy bin yaqzan and robinson crusoe: a study of an early arabic impact on english literature, al-rashid house for publica
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