Robinson Crusoe (Annotated)

Daniel Defoe's Robinson Crusoe (1719) is at once an adventure narrative, spiritual autobiography, and foundational work of English prose fiction. Cast onto a remote island after shipwreck, Crusoe transforms apparent desolation into a disciplined experiment in survival, labor, property, and self-government. Defoe's plain, documentary style—rich in practical detail, economic calculation, and chronol...