Robinson Crusoe
Robinson Crusoe is the leading character in a novel by Daniel Defoe, published in 1719 (The Life and Strange Surprising Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, of York, Mariner: Who Lived Eight and Twenty Years, All Alone in an Un-inhabited Island on the Coast of America, Near the Mouth of the Great River of Oroonoque; Having Been Cast on Shore by Shipwreck, Wherein All the Men Perished by Himself, With an Account how he was at last as Strangely Deliver'd by Pyrates. WRitten by Himself). Due to the success of the original, Defoe wrote a sequel in the same year, The Farther Adventures of Robinson Crusoe. The tale remains popular because generations of readers recognize Crusoe's nature and his quest for social interaction as similar to their own.
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