Robinson Crusoe

You're exploring reads like

Classics Historical fiction 1800

Robinson Crusoe

by Daniel Defoe

Robinson Crusoe is among the first novels written in English. Thanks to its extraordinary realism and drama, it is easily the longest-enduring work of popular fiction in the language. The story, probably based on the Pacific-island ordeal of castaway Alexander Selkirk, was presented by Daniel Defoe as a true account, and is utterly convincing in its topography, action, and character, even three hundred years after its first publication. Robinson Crusoe is a true page-turner: Dr. Samuel Johnson said it was one of only three books he had read that would have been better for being longer.

See the full page

Other stacks with this book

2 readers stacked Robinson Crusoe

If the stacks aren't enough

Books similar to Robinson Crusoe

Atmospheric, contemplative, raw: that's the feel this book shares, brought together by readers one by one.

Where next?

Show more like this raw feel unflinching feel Another genre atmospheric feel

Still hunting?

Open a list and let readers add books like this

Start an open stack — other readers vote books in, and you get a living shelf of recommendations instead of one more list.

Open a list with this book