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Robinson Crusoe
By Daniel Defoe




The first volume of Robinson Crusoe was published on 25 April 1719, and it was a big hit, especially for the lower and middle classes. Since that one worked so well, Daniel published Moll Flanders in 1722, drawing heavily on his experiences in Newgate prison to add realism. This novel got him the label of a social historian, much, much later, of course. The point was that the public ate up this kind of thing, and Daniel wrote lots of it. He also worked for a publisher named Mr. Applebee between 1720 and 1726, who liked to publish books about the lives of condemned criminals. Daniel used to go to prison cells and even the scaffold to receive manuscripts for these lives from the criminals themselves. He sometimes goofed up on dates and numbers, but all of these lives are wonderful studies of character and society, though often a bit too heavy on the moral lessons by today's standards.

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In the novel Robinson Crusoe , Daniel Defoe presents the life of one man who lived on a desert island for twenty-eight years . Robinson Crusoe was born in 1632 in York city in a good family . He had two elder brothers . Since he was a child , he was feeling an attraction for sailing . When he had nineteen years old he ran away from home to sail with a fellow . They had wreck and the crew was saved . Then he met in London a captain and they tripped to Guinea . On this trip they were attacked by a pirate ship from Sale and he became slave . He escaped and the he sailed to South and continued his travel to Guinea. The ship wrecked and the all crew died except Robinson Crusoe who woke up on a desert island . He thought about his condition and he built a place to stay and to be safe. Then he began to make tools and cultivate barley. Then he began to research the island . On the island , he found lemon trees , grapes , tobacco , sugar cane . These plants grew wild without any human help . His family grew because his cat came back