Robinson Crusoe

This Classic Story of a Shipwrecked Mariner on a Deserted Island is Perhaps the Greatest Adventure in All of English Literature. Fleeing From Pirates, Robinson Crusoe is Swept Ashore in a Storm Possessing Only a Knife, a Box of Tobacco, a Pipe-And the Will to Survive. His is the Saga of a Man Alone a Man Who Overcomes Self-Pity and Despair to Reconstruct His Life; Who Painstakingly Teaches Himself How to Fashion a Pot, Bake Bread, Build a Canoe; and Who, After Twenty-Four Agonizing Years of Solitude, Discovers a Human Footprint in the Sand... Consistently Popular Since Its First Publication in 1719, Daniel Defoe's Story of Human Endurance in an Exotic, Faraway Land Exerts a Timeless Appeal. the First Important English Novel, "Robinson Crusoe" Has Taken Its Rightful Place Among the Great Myths of Western Civilization.