Defoe's "Essay on Projects" was the first volume he published, and no great writer ever published a first book more characteristic in expression of his tone of thought. It is practical in th
Among the first adventure novels to ever be written, Robinson Crusoe tells the story of a young man who is trapped for 28 years on an island in the Caribbean.
HAVING taken more than ordinary Pains in collecting the Materials which compose the following History, we could not be satisfied with our selves, if any Thing were wanting to it, which might render it
The Penguin English Library Edition of Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe 'I walk'd about on the shore, lifting up my hands, and my whole being, as I may say, wrapt up in the contemplation of my delivera
Moll Flanders is, according to Virginia Woolf, one of the "few English novels which we can call indisputably great." Written by Defoe in 1722 under a pseudonym so his readers would think it an actual
"Robinson Crusoe" is among the first novels written in English. The story, probably based on the Pacific-island ordeal of castaway Alexander Selkirk, was presented by the author as a true account, and
