The Life and Strange Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, of York, Mariner, as Related by Himself

Daniel DeFoe (c. 1659-1731) was an English writer, journalist, and pamphleteer, who gained fame for his novel Robinson Crusoe. Defoe is among the founders of the English novel. First published in 1719, Robinson Crusoe is a fictional autobiography of a castaway who spends 28 years on a remote tropical island near Trinidad, encountering cannibals, captives, and mutineers before being rescued.