![]() ![]() Crusoe is able to grow crops and eventually manages to domesticate some of the wild goats that live on the island, thus supplying himself with a constant source of nourishment. With difficulty, he is also able to make several other items that are useful to him. Fortunately, Crusoe is able to salvage many useful items from his wrecked ship. He spends most of that time living entirely on his own. Crusoe lives on the island for twenty-eight years. Crusoe finds himself a castaway on an uninhabited island in the Caribbean. All the other people who had been on board the ship drown. The novel's title character, protagonist and narrator is an Englishman who, while traveling by ship from Brazil to Africa, is caught up in a terrible storm. There were, however, no divisions in the text when it was first published. Modern editions of the novel are usually divided into twenty chapters. Defoe's name did not appear on the title page of the book's first edition, which was presented as being an autobiography of Crusoe. It is generally considered to have been the first novel to have been written in the English language. ![]() It was first published on April 25, 1719. Robinson Crusoe is a work of fiction by the British author Daniel Defoe. Front cover of an 1889 American edition of Robinson Crusoe. ![]()
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