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Robinsonade is a literary genre
Literary genre

A literary genre is a category of literary composition. Genres may be determined by literary technique, setting tone, content, or even length. Genre should not be confused with age category, by which literature may be classified as either adult, young-adult fiction, or children's literature....
 that takes its name from the 1719 novel
Novel

File:2009 stapelweise Neuerscheinungen im Buchladen.JPGA novel is today a long narrative in literary prose. The genre has historical roots both in the fields of the medieval and early modern Romance and in the tradition of the novella....
 Robinson Crusoe
Robinson Crusoe

Robinson Crusoe is a novel by Daniel Defoe. It was first published in 1719 and sometimes regarded as the first novel in English. The book is a fictional autobiography of the title character, an English castaway who spends 28 years on a remote tropical island near Venezuela, encountering Indigenous peoples of the Americas, captives, and mu...
 by Daniel Defoe
Daniel Defoe

Daniel Defoe , born Daniel Foe, was an United Kingdom writer, journalist, and pamphleteer, who gained enduring fame for his novel Robinson Crusoe....
. The success of this novel spawned enough imitations that its name was used to define a genre, which is sometimes described simply as a "desert island story".

The word "robinsonade" was coined by the German writer Johann Gottfried Schnabel
Johann Gottfried Schnabel

Johann Gottfried Schnabel was a German writer best known for his novel Insel Felsenburg. He published his works under the pen name Gisander....
 in the Preface of his work Die Insel Felsenburg (1731).

he archetypical robinsonade, the protagonist is suddenly isolated from the comforts of civilization, usually shipwrecked or marooned on a secluded and uninhabited island.






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Robinsonade is a literary genre
Literary genre

A literary genre is a category of literary composition. Genres may be determined by literary technique, setting tone, content, or even length. Genre should not be confused with age category, by which literature may be classified as either adult, young-adult fiction, or children's literature....
 that takes its name from the 1719 novel
Novel

File:2009 stapelweise Neuerscheinungen im Buchladen.JPGA novel is today a long narrative in literary prose. The genre has historical roots both in the fields of the medieval and early modern Romance and in the tradition of the novella....
 Robinson Crusoe
Robinson Crusoe

Robinson Crusoe is a novel by Daniel Defoe. It was first published in 1719 and sometimes regarded as the first novel in English. The book is a fictional autobiography of the title character, an English castaway who spends 28 years on a remote tropical island near Venezuela, encountering Indigenous peoples of the Americas, captives, and mu...
 by Daniel Defoe
Daniel Defoe

Daniel Defoe , born Daniel Foe, was an United Kingdom writer, journalist, and pamphleteer, who gained enduring fame for his novel Robinson Crusoe....
. The success of this novel spawned enough imitations that its name was used to define a genre, which is sometimes described simply as a "desert island story".

The word "robinsonade" was coined by the German writer Johann Gottfried Schnabel
Johann Gottfried Schnabel

Johann Gottfried Schnabel was a German writer best known for his novel Insel Felsenburg. He published his works under the pen name Gisander....
 in the Preface of his work Die Insel Felsenburg (1731).

Literary Form

In the archetypical robinsonade, the protagonist is suddenly isolated from the comforts of civilization, usually shipwrecked or marooned on a secluded and uninhabited island. He must improvise the means of his survival from the limited resources at hand. Unlike Thomas More
Thomas More

Saint Thomas More was an English lawyer, author, and statesman who in his lifetime gained a reputation as a leading Renaissance humanist scholar, and occupied many public offices, including Lord Chancellor ....
's Utopia
Utopia (book)

Utopia, with the subtitle On the best state of a republic and on the new island of Utopia , is a 1516 book by Sir Saint Thomas More....
 and romantic works which depicted nature as idyllic, Crusoe made it unforgiving and sparse. The protagonist survives by his wits and the qualities of his cultural upbringing, which also enable him to prevail in conflicts with fellow castaways or over local peoples he may encounter.

Robinson Crusoe and "robinsonades" share plot elements with William Shakespeare
William Shakespeare

William Shakespeare was an English people poet and playwright, widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's preeminent dramatist....
's The Tempest
The Tempest

The Tempest is a play by William Shakespeare, probably written in 1610?11, although some researchers have argued for an earlier dating. Its protagonist is the banished sorcerer Prospero, rightful Duke of Milan, who uses his magical powers to punish and forgive his enemies when he raises a tempest that drives them ashore....
, but the story emphasis and story message are markedly different.

Robinson Crusoe was influential in creating a colonialization
Colonialism

Colonialism is the extension of a nation's sovereignty over Territory beyond its borders by the establishment of either settler or exploitation colony in which Indigenous people populations are direct rule, Population transfers, or Genocide....
 mythology—as novelist James Joyce
James Joyce

James Augustine Aloysius Joyce was an Ireland expatriate author of the 20th century. He is best known for his landmark novel Ulysses and its controversial successor Finnegans Wake , as well as the short story collection Dubliners and the semi-autobiographical novel A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man ....
 eloquently noted the true symbol of the British conquest
British Empire

The British Empire comprised the dominions, Crown colony, protectorates, League of Nations mandate, and other Dependent territory ruled or administered by the United Kingdom , that had originated with the overseas colonies and trading posts established by England in the late 16th and early 17th centuries....
 is Robinson Crusoe: "He is the true prototype of the British colonist…". Later works expanded on and explored this mythology.

Robinsonades were especially popular in Germany
Germany

Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a country in Central Europe. It is bordered to the north by the North Sea, Denmark, and the Baltic Sea; to the east by Poland and the Czech Republic; to the south by Austria and Switzerland; and to the west by France, Luxembourg, Belgium, and the Netherlands....
 in the 18th and 19th centuries.

In Science Fiction

Robinsonade is also a paradigm for much of space-travel science fiction: our cosmonauts (astronauts) arrive at new worlds, terraform them if necessary, then live and prosper there, building a civilization where none existed before. The vastness of interstellar space, and the constraints of relativistic physics, may keep them isolated for thousands of years from other human or non-human (possibly robotic) settlements scattered across the galaxy, hidden amongst hundreds of billions of other stars and planets; and in their new life, they may meet aliens, just as Robinson Crusoe met Man Friday.

Sears List of Subject Headings, 18th ed., Joseph Miller, ed. (New York: The H. W. Wilson Co., 2004) recommends that librarians also catalog apocalyptic fantasies -- such as Cormac McCarthy's popular novel The Road (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2006), or even Robert A. Heinlein's Starship Troopers (New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1959), as Robinsonades. Dewey Decimal Classification and Relative Index, 22d ed. (Dublin, Ohio: OCLC Online Computer Library Center, Inc., 2003), however, excepts "The Revelation of John" and other biblical apocalyptic passages from this cataloging rule.

Examples


Literature

Ordered by date of publication
  • The Female American
    The Female American

    The Female American; or, The Adventures of Unca Eliza Winkfield, is a novel, originally published in 1767, under the pseudonym of the main character/narrator, Unca Eliza Winkfield and edited in recent editions by Michelle Burnham....
     (anon., 1767)
  • Iphigenia in Tauris (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
    Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

    was a Germans writer and according to George Eliot, "Germany's greatest man of letters? and the last true polymath to walk the earth." Goethe's works span the fields of poetry, drama, literature, theology, philosophy, humanism and science....
    , 1787) (based on Iphigeneia in Tauris
    Iphigeneia in Tauris

    Iphigeneia in Tauris is a drama by the playwright Euripides, written sometime between 414 BC and 412 BC. It has much in common with another of Euripides's plays, Helen , and is often described as a romance , a melodrama or an escape play....
     by Euripides
    Euripides

    Euripides was the last of the three great tragedy of classical Athens . Ancient scholars thought that Euripides had written ninety-five plays, although four of those were probably written by Critias....
    )
  • The Swiss Family Robinson
    The Swiss Family Robinson

    The Swiss Family Robinson is a novel, first published in 1812, about a Switzerland family who are shipwrecked in the East Indies en route to Port Jackson, Australia....
     (Johann David Wyss
    Johann David Wyss

    Johann David Wyss is best remembered for his book The Swiss Family Robinson. It is said that he was inspired by Defoe's Robinson Crusoe, but wanted to write a story in from which his own children would learn, as the father in the story taught important lessons to his children....
    , 1812)
  • Masterman Ready, or the Wreck in the Pacific (Frederick Marryat
    Frederick Marryat

    Captain Frederick Marryat was an England novelist, a contemporary and acquaintance of Charles Dickens, noted today as an early pioneer of the sea story....
    , 1841)
  • The Coral Island
    The Coral Island

    The Coral Island is a novel written by Scotland young adult literature author Robert Michael Ballantyne. It was voted as one of the top twenty Scottish novels in the 2006 15th International World Wide Web Conference....
     (R.M. Ballantyne
    Robert Michael Ballantyne

    R. M. Ballantyne was a Scottish young adult literature writer.Born Robert Michael Ballantyne in Edinburgh, he was part of a famous family of printer and publishers....
    , 1857)
  • L'Oncle Robinson (Jules Verne
    Jules Verne

    Jules Gabriel Verne was a France author who helped pioneer the science fiction genre. He is best known for his novels Journey to the Center of the Earth , From the Earth to the Moon , Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea , and Around the World in Eighty Days ....
    , 1870; unpublished until 1991)
  • The Mysterious Island
    The Mysterious Island

    The Mysterious Island is a novel by Jules Verne, published in 1874 in literature. The original edition, published by Pierre-Jules Hetzel, contains a number of illustrations by Jules F?rat....
     (L'Île mystérieuse) (Jules Verne
    Jules Verne

    Jules Gabriel Verne was a France author who helped pioneer the science fiction genre. He is best known for his novels Journey to the Center of the Earth , From the Earth to the Moon , Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea , and Around the World in Eighty Days ....
    , 1874)
  • Godfrey Morgan
    Godfrey Morgan

    For the philanthropist see Godfrey Morgan, 1st Viscount TredegarGodfrey Morgan, also published as School for Robinsons , is an adventure novel by French writer Jules Verne first published in 1882 in literature....
     (L'École des Robinsons) (Jules Verne
    Jules Verne

    Jules Gabriel Verne was a France author who helped pioneer the science fiction genre. He is best known for his novels Journey to the Center of the Earth , From the Earth to the Moon , Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea , and Around the World in Eighty Days ....
    , 1881)
  • Two Years' Vacation
    Two Years' Vacation

    Two Years' Vacation is an adventure novel by Jules Verne, published in 1888 in literature. The story tells of the fortunes of a group of schoolboys stranded on a deserted island in the Oceania, and of their struggles to overcome adversity....
     (Deux ans de vacances) (Jules Verne
    Jules Verne

    Jules Gabriel Verne was a France author who helped pioneer the science fiction genre. He is best known for his novels Journey to the Center of the Earth , From the Earth to the Moon , Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea , and Around the World in Eighty Days ....
    , 1888)
  • The Jungle Book
    The Jungle Book

    The Jungle Book is a collection of stories written by Rudyard Kipling. The stories were first published in magazines in 1893–4. The original publications contained illustrations, some by Rudyard's father, John Lockwood Kipling....
     (Rudyard Kipling
    Rudyard Kipling

    Joseph Rudyard Kipling was an English author and poet. Born in Mumbai, British India , he is best known for his works of fiction The Jungle Book , Kim , many short stories, including The Man Who Would Be King ; and his poems, including Mandalay , Gunga Din , and If? ....
    , 1894) - the Mowgli stories
  • The Island of Dr Moreau (H. G. Wells
    H. G. Wells

    Herbert George Wells , known by his pen name H. G. Wells, was an England author, best known for his work in the science fiction genre. Wells and Jules Verne are each sometimes referred to as "The Father of Science Fiction"....
    , 1896)
  • I Robinson italiani (Emilio Salgari
    Emilio Salgari

    Emilio Salgari was an Italians writer of action adventure swashbucklers and a pioneer of science fiction in Italy.For over a century his novels were mandatory reading for generations of youth eager for exotic adventures....
    , 1896)
  • The Admirable Crichton
    The Admirable Crichton

    The Admirable Crichton is a comic stage play written in 1902 by J. M. Barrie. It was produced by Charles Frohman and opened at the Duke of York's Theatre in London on 4 November, 1902, running for an extremely successful 828 performances....
     (J. M. Barrie
    J. M. Barrie

    Sir James Matthew Barrie, 1st Baronet Order of Merit , more commonly known as J. M. Barrie, was a Scotland author and dramatist. He is best remembered for creating Peter Pan, the boy who refused to grow up, whom he based on his friends, the Llewelyn Davies boys....
    , 1902)
  • Baby Island
    Baby Island

    Baby Island is a novel by Carol Ryrie Brink, published in 1937. It resembles Robinson Crusoe in that the protagonists Mary and Jean are stranded on a desert island with four babies....
     (Carol Ryrie Brink
    Carol Ryrie Brink

    Carol Ryrie Brink was a United States author of children's fiction. Her novel Caddie Woodlawn won the 1936 Newbery Medal....
    , 1937)
  • The Black Stallion
    The Black Stallion

    The Black Stallion, known as "the Black" or "Sh?t?n", is the title character from author Walter Farley's bestselling series about the wild stallion and his young friend Alec Ramsay....
     (Walter Farley
    Walter Farley

    Walter Farley was an United States of America author. Educated at Columbia College of Columbia University, where he received a B.A. in 1941, his first and most famous work was The Black Stallion ....
    , 1941)
  • Lord of the Flies
    Lord of the Flies

    Lord of the Flies is an Allegory novel by Nobel Prize for Literature-winning author William Golding. It discusses how culture created by man fails, using as an example a group of United Kingdom school-boys stuck on a desert island who try to govern themselves with disastrous results....
     (William Golding
    William Golding

    Sir William Gerald Golding was a United Kingdom novelist, poet and Nobel Prize for Literature laureate best known for his novel Lord of the Flies....
    , 1954)
  • Tunnel in the Sky
    Tunnel in the Sky

    Tunnel in the Sky is a science fiction book written by Robert A. Heinlein and published in 1955 by Charles Scribner's Sons as one of the Heinlein juveniles....
     (Robert A. Heinlein
    Robert A. Heinlein

    Robert Anson Heinlein was an United States novelist and science fiction writer. Often called "the dean of science fiction writers", he is one of the most popular, influential, and controversial authors of the genre....
    , 1955)
  • Pincher Martin
    Pincher Martin

    Pincher Martin is the third novel by William Golding . When it was originally published in the United States, its title was changed to The Two Deaths of Christopher Martin, but later it was returned to its British name....
     (William Golding
    William Golding

    Sir William Gerald Golding was a United Kingdom novelist, poet and Nobel Prize for Literature laureate best known for his novel Lord of the Flies....
    , 1956)
  • Danny Dunn on a Desert Island (Raymond Abrashkin
    Raymond Abrashkin

    Raymond Abrashkin was an American writer best known for writing, co-producing, and co-directing the acclaimed movie, The Little Fugitive, and for co-creating and co-authoring the highly successful Danny Dunn series of science fiction books for children with Jay Williams ....
     and Jay Williams
    Jay Williams (author)

    Jay Williams was an United States author born in Buffalo, New York, New York, the son of Max and Lillian Jacobson. He cited the experience of growing up as the son of a vaudeville show producer as leading him to pursue his acting career as early as college....
    , 1957)
  • The Survivors
    The Survivors (novel)

    The Survivors is a science fiction novel by author Tom Godwin. It was published in 1958 in literature by Gnome Press in an edition of 5,000 copies, of which 1,084 were never bound....
     (Tom Godwin
    Tom Godwin

    Tom Godwin was a science fiction List of science fiction authors. Godwin published three novels and thirty short stories. His controversial hard SF short story "The Cold Equations" is a notable in the mid-1950s science fiction genre....
    , 1958)
  • Island of the Blue Dolphins
    Island of the Blue Dolphins

    Island of the Blue Dolphins is an United States children's literature written by Scott O'Dell. It was published in 1960 and won the Newbery Medal that year....
     (Scott O'Dell
    Scott O'Dell

    Scott O'Dell was an American children's author who wrote 26 novels for youngsters, along with three adult novels and four nonfiction books. He was most famously the author of the children's novel Island of the Blue Dolphins , which won the 1961 in literature Newbery Medal as well as a number of other awards....
    , 1960)
  • Transit (Edmund Cooper
    Edmund Cooper

    Edmund Cooper was an England poet and prolific writer of speculative fiction, and other genres including children books, essays and one detective novel, published under his own name and several pen names....
    , 1964)
  • A Far Sunset
    A Far Sunset

    A Far Sunset is a science fiction novel by Edmund Cooper, published in 1968....
     (Edmund Cooper
    Edmund Cooper

    Edmund Cooper was an England poet and prolific writer of speculative fiction, and other genres including children books, essays and one detective novel, published under his own name and several pen names....
    , 1967)
  • Friday (Vendredi ou les Limbes du Pacifique) (Michel Tournier
    Michel Tournier

    Michel Tournier is a France writer.His works are highly considered and have won important awards such as the Grand Prix du roman de l'Acad?mie fran?aise in 1967 for Vendredi ou les limbes du Pacifique. and the Prix Goncourt for Le Roi des aulnes in 1970....
    , 1967)
  • The Other Side of the Mountain (La Montagne morte de la vie) (Michel Bernanos, 1967)
  • Providence Island (Calder Willingham
    Calder Willingham

    Calder Baynard Willingham, Jr. was an American novelist and screenwriter. He cowrote several notable screenplays, including Paths of Glory and One-Eyed Jacks ....
    , 1969)
  • Concrete Island
    Concrete Island

    Concrete Island is a 1974 English fiction novel by J. G. Ballard....
     (J. G. Ballard
    J. G. Ballard

    James Graham Ballard is a United Kingdom novelist and short story writer. He was a prominent member of the New Wave in science fiction. His best known books are the controversial Crash , and the autobiographical novel Empire of the Sun, both of which have been adapted to film....
    , 1973)
  • Shipwreck (Charles Logan
    Charles Logan (author)

    Charles Logan is a UK science fiction writer and professional nurse.He is best known as the author of the book Shipwreck, first published by Victor Gollancz Ltd in 1975, which was the winner of the prize for the best British sci-fi novel that year....
    , 1975)
  • Friday and Robinson (Vendredi ou la Vie sauvage) (Michel Tournier
    Michel Tournier

    Michel Tournier is a France writer.His works are highly considered and have won important awards such as the Grand Prix du roman de l'Acad?mie fran?aise in 1967 for Vendredi ou les limbes du Pacifique. and the Prix Goncourt for Le Roi des aulnes in 1970....
    , 1977)
  • The Clan of the Cave Bear
    The Clan of the Cave Bear

    The Clan of the Cave Bear is a historical fiction novel by Jean M. Auel about Prehistory . It is the first in the Earth's Children series that investigates the possibility of Neanderthal and modern Cro-Magnon Homo living near each other at the same time....
     (Jean M. Auel
    Jean M. Auel

    Jean M. Auel , n?e Jean Marie Untinen is an United States and Finland writer. She is best known for her Earth's Children books, a series of historical fiction novels set in prehistoric Europe that explores interactions of Cro-Magnon people with Neanderthals....
    , 1980)
  • Foe
    Foe (novel)

    Foe is a 1986 novel by expatriate South African author J. M. Coetzee. Woven around the existing plot of Robinson Crusoe, Foe is written from the perspective of Susan Barton, a castaway who landed on the same island inhabited by "Cruso" and Man Friday as their adventures were already underway....
     (J. M. Coetzee, 1986),
  • Hatchet
    Hatchet (novel)

    Hatchet is a 1987 Newbery Honor award-winning Survivalism novel written by Gary Paulsen....
    , (Gary Paulsen
    Gary Paulsen

    BiographyBorn in Minneapolis, Minnesota in 1939, he was raised by his grandmother and aunts. Paulsen used his work as a magazine proofreader to learn the craft of writing....
    , 1987)
  • The Island of the Day Before
    The Island of the Day Before

    The Island of the Day Before is a 1994 novel by Umberto Eco.It is the story of a 17th century Italian nobility who is the only survivor of a shipwreck during a fierce storm....
     (Umberto Eco
    Umberto Eco

    Umberto Eco is an Italy medievalist, Semiotics, philosopher, Literary criticism and novelist, best known for his novel The Name of the Rose , an intellectual mystery combining semiotics in fiction, biblical analysis, medieval studies and literary theory....
    , 1994)
  • Life of Pi
    Life of Pi

    Life of Pi is a fantasy adventure novel written by Canada author Yann Martel. In the story, the protagonist Piscine "Pi" Molitor Patel, an Indian boy from Pondicherry, explores issues of religion, spirituality, and practicality from an early age....
     (Yann Martel
    Yann Martel

    Yann Martel is a Canada author best known for the Man Booker Prize-winning novel Life of Pi....
    , 2001)
  • Nation
    Nation (novel)

    Nation is a Terry Pratchett novel, published in the UK on September 11, 2008. It is the first non-Discworld Pratchett novel since Johnny and the Bomb ....
     (Terry Pratchett
    Terry Pratchett

    Sir Terence David John Pratchett, Officer of the Order of the British Empire is an England novelist, known for his frequently comical work in the fantasy genre....
    , 2008)


Other media

  • Robinson Crusoe on Mars
    Robinson Crusoe on Mars

    Robinson Crusoe on Mars is a 1964 in film Techniscope science fiction film retelling of the classic Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe. It was directed by Byron Haskin, produced by Aubrey Schenck and starred Paul Mantee, Victor Lundin and Adam West....
     (film, 1964)
  • Gilligan's Island
    Gilligan's Island

    Gilligan's Island is an United States Television program Situation comedy originally produced by United Artists Television. It aired for three seasons on the CBS network, from September 26, 1964 to September 4, 1967....
     (TV series, 1964-1967)
  • Lost in Space
    Lost in Space

    Lost in Space is a science fiction TV series created and produced by Irwin Allen, produced by 20th Century Fox Television, and broadcast on CBS....
     (TV series, 1965-1968)
  • Lt. Robin Crusoe, U.S.N.
    Lt. Robin Crusoe, U.S.N.

    Lt. Robin Crusoe USN is a 1966 in film comedy film released and scripted by Walt Disney. The film stars Dick Van Dyke as a U.S. Navy pilot who becomes a castaway on a tropical island....
     (film, 1966)
  • Hell in the Pacific
    Hell in the Pacific

    Hell in the Pacific is a 1968 World War II film starring Lee Marvin and Toshiro Mifune. It was directed by John Boorman.Two men, one American and one Japanese, are marooned on an uninhabited Pacific island....
     (film, 1968)
  • MacGyver
    MacGyver

    MacGyver is an United States adventure television series, produced in the United States and Canada, about the wiktionary:laid-back, extremely resourceful secret agent Angus MacGyver, played by Richard Dean Anderson....
     (TV series, 1985-1992)
  • Nadia: The Secret of Blue Water
    Nadia: The Secret of Blue Water

    is a Japanese anime television series inspired by the works of Jules Verne, particularly Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea and the exploits of Captain Nemo....
     (TV series, episodes 1990-1991)
  • Cast Away
    Cast Away

    Cast Away is a 2000 in film film by 20th Century Fox and DreamWorks about a FedEx employee who is castaway on an uninhabited desert island after his plane goes down over the South Pacific....
     (film, 2000)
  • Survivor
    Survivor (TV series)

    Survivor is a popular reality television game show format produced in many countries throughout the world. In the show, contestants are isolated in the wilderness and compete for cash and other prizes....
     (TV series, 2000-present)
  • Lost
    Lost (TV series)

    Lost is an American Serial television program. It follows the lives of plane crash survivors on a mysterious tropical island, after a commercial Oceanic Flight 815 flying between Sydney, Australia and Los Angeles, United States crashes somewhere in the Oceania....
     (TV series, 2004-present)
  • Star Trek Voyager (TV series, 1995-2001)
  • Flight 29 Down
    Flight 29 Down

    Flight 29 Down is a Television series about a group of teenagers who are stranded on an island. It was produced by Discovery Kids.The show was created by Stan Rogow and D....
     (TV series, 2005-2007)

See also


  • Homage
    Homage

    Homage is generally used in modern English language to mean any public show of respect to someone to whom one feels indebted. In this sense, a reference within a creative work to someone who greatly influenced the artist would be an homage....
  • Robinson Crusoe
    Robinson Crusoe

    Robinson Crusoe is a novel by Daniel Defoe. It was first published in 1719 and sometimes regarded as the first novel in English. The book is a fictional autobiography of the title character, an English castaway who spends 28 years on a remote tropical island near Venezuela, encountering Indigenous peoples of the Americas, captives, and mu...


External Links

  • For historical examples, see which has an overview of the genre along with over 200 versions of Robinson Crusoe
    Robinson Crusoe

    Robinson Crusoe is a novel by Daniel Defoe. It was first published in 1719 and sometimes regarded as the first novel in English. The book is a fictional autobiography of the title character, an English castaway who spends 28 years on a remote tropical island near Venezuela, encountering Indigenous peoples of the Americas, captives, and mu...
     and historical Robinsonades openly and freely online with full text and zoomable page images from the Baldwin Library of Historical Children's Literature
    University of Florida Baldwin Library

    The Baldwin Library of Historical Children's Literature in the Department of Special Collections at the University of Florida's George A. Smathers Libraries contains more than 93,000 volumes published in Great Britain and the United States from the early 1700s through the 1990s....