Robinson Crusoe

by Daniel Defoe

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Faithlife

, 1995

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Overview

In Robinson Crusoe, Daniel Defoe creates one of the first major pieces of realistic fiction, a seminal work in the development of this literary genre. The 1719 novel combines epistolary, confessional, and didactic techniques to create a fictional autobiography of the titular character. The British seaman Crusoe lives nearly 30 years on an island near Trinidad, after being the lone survivor of a shipwreck. The novel tells of Crusoe’s struggle to survive and his adventures involving cannibals, captives, and mutineers, before he finally makes it back home to England. Explore this literary classic in its original, unabridged form.

Presents one of the first major pieces of realistic fiction
Combines epistolary, confessional, and didactic literary techniques
Offers the work in its original, unabridged form

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“So little do we see before us in the world, and so much reason have we to depend cheerfully upon the great Maker of the world, that He does not leave His creatures so absolutely destitute, but that, in the worst circumstances, they have always something to be thankful for, and sometimes are nearer their deliverance than they imagine; nay, are even brought to their deliverance by the means by which they seem to be brought to their destruction.” (source)

“And I add this part here, to hint to whoever shall read it, that whenever they come to a true sense of things, they will find deliverance from a sin a much greater blessing than deliverance from affliction.” (source)

“All evils are to be considered with the good that is in them, and with what worse attends them” (source)

“There are some secret moving springs in the affections which, when they are set agoing by” (source)

“with the pride, luxury, ambition, and envy of the upper part of mankind” (source)