The initial 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.
원제는 《조난을 당해 모든 선원이 사망하고 자신은 아메리카 대륙 오리노코 강 가까운 무인도 해변에서 28년 동안 홀로 살다가 마침내 기적적으로 해적선에 구출된 요크 출신 뱃사람 로빈슨 크루소 가 그려낸 자신의 생애와 기이하고도 놀라운 모험 이야기》(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.