Robinson Crusoe

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Robinson Crusoe by Daniel DefoeVirtual Entertainment, 2012Series: World adventure classic booksLook for other books on our site http://books.virenter.comEpistolary, confessional, and didactic in form, the book is a fictional autobiography of the title character (whose birth name is Robinson Kreutznaer)—a castaway who spends 28 years on a remote tropical island near Trinidad, encountering cannibals, captives, and mutineers before being rescued.Despite its simple narrative style, Robinson Crusoe was well received in the literary world and is often credited as marking the beginning of realistic fiction as a literary genre. Before the end of 1719 the book had already run through four editions, and it has gone on to become one of the most widely published books in history, spawning numerous sequels and adaptations for stage, film, and television.— Excerpted from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.