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SOME INFORMATION ABOUT ROBISON CRUESE |
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 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. Published: April 25, 1719 Author: Daniel Defoe Followed by: The Farther Adventures of Robinson Crusoe Original language: English Characters: Friday, Xury, The Portuguese captain, The Spaniard, Robinson Crusoe |