Robinson Crusoe is a novel by Daniel Defoe, first published on 25 April 1719.
The first edition credited the work's protagonist Robinson Crusoe as its author, leading many readers to believe he was a real person and the book a travelogue of true incidents.
It was published under the full title The Life and Strange Surprizing 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 but himself.
With An Account how he was at last as strangely deliver'd by Pyrates.
