The Legend of Zelda (1986) for the NES is the Robinson Crusoe (1719) of video games. Robinson Crusoe, yes, the 300-year-old text by Daniel Defoe, is a rollicking story of an adventuresome Englishman.

Defoe wrote Robinson Crusoe 300 years ago and his castaway – capitalist, imperialist, pragmatist – has stood for versions of Englishness ever since. By Philip Ball Some years ago the New Yorker banned ...

Robinson Crusoe writer Daniel Defoe's account about this time - A Journal of the Plague Year - was an early example of faction, which was written afterwards but based on detailed research.

Vividly written, replete with paradoxes and troubling cultural attitudes, revealing a deep strain of supernaturalism beneath its realist surface, “Robinson Crusoe” is just such a classic and ...

In his new book, “Save Our Souls: The True Story of a Castaway Family, Treachery, and Murder,” Matthew Pearl tells the story of the only family known to have been shipwrecked together.

The book is “Robinson Crusoe,” written by Defoe and first published in 1719. Crusoe is an Englishman who leaves his comfortable life, goes to sea, gets captured by pirates and sold into slavery.

“The Christian religion and the doctrine of Providence are too sacred to be delivered in fictions and lies,” he thundered. THE idea that religion is an inessential, even an insincere, part of Robinson ...

After spending 28 years, two months and 19 days marooned on an island, Robinson Crusoe does not lose his nose for adventure or his “native propensity to rambling”. He crosses the Pyrenees ...

A novel written by a 12th-century Arab writer about a boy alone on an island influenced the Daniel Defoe classic ‘Robinson Crusoe.’ By Mustafa Akyol Mr. Akyol is a contributing Op-Ed writer ...