Robinson Crusoe, generally considered to be the first novel in English, is also the granddaddy of survivor sagas. Crusoe-the-castaway spends decades on his proverbial desert island, crafting what ...

Real-life buccaneer survival narratives were a major literary genre when Daniel Defoe published his hit novel Robinson Crusoe in 1719. Defoe was influenced by these narratives, and his resulting ...

Does Crusoe finish the novel a rich man or a very rich one ... “Despite the careful attention that the textual history of Robinson Crusoe has received, no one has even noticed a problem ...

In time, Mr. Morandi became an island attraction of his own, often compared to the titular castaway of Daniel Defoe’s 18th-century novel “Robinson Crusoe.” But in time, life changed for Mr ...

It is an amalgamation of tales that evolved over time. An echo and a reimagining of Daniel Dafoe’s 1719 novel “Robinson Crusoe,” the first “Swiss Family Robinson” was published in 1812 ...

Little things bother some people. Elizabeth Kowaleski Wallace wonders why little things failed to bother Robinson Crusoe, the hero of Daniel Defoe’s 1719 novel, who spent 28 years documenting ...