GajimaruClassics.Robinson Crusoe
On the coverThe Shipwreck, J. M. W. Turner, 1805
Robinson Crusoe
Shipwrecked alone on a Caribbean island, a castaway spends twenty-eight years building a life from nothing, wits, faith, and salvage, until a single footprint in the sand tells him he is not alone. Often called the first English novel.
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The original survival story and a strange, gripping study of a man alone with himself. Every desert-island tale since is its child.
SettingA Caribbean island, 1600s
The age of sail and empire, when a lone Englishman’s ingenuity was held up as a whole philosophy of self-reliance.