num_pages: 316
description: The solitary survivor on a deserted island, Robinson Crusoe gradually creates a life for himself, building a house and cultivating the land, and making a companion of the native whose life he saves. Daniel Defoe's enthralling story-telling and imaginatively detailed descriptions have ensuredthat his fiction masquerading as fact remains one of the most famous stories in English literature. On one level a simple adventure story, the novel also raises profound questions about moral and spiritual values, society, and man's abiding acquisitiveness.
language: English
title: Robinson Crusoe
titlecomplete: Robinson Crusoe
characters: Robinson Crusoe, Friday
genres: Literature, British Literature, Classics, School, Adventure, Novels, 18th Century, Historical Fiction, Fiction, Classic Literature
ratings_count: 296847
places: Caribbean Islands, Brazil, North Africa, small island on mouth of Orinoco river
series: Robinson Crusoe
publisher: Oxford University Press