Robinson Crusoe es la obra mas famosa de Daniel Defoe, publicada en 1719 y considerada la primera novela inglesa. Se trata de una autobiografia ficticia del protagonista, un naufrago ingles que pasa veintiocho anos en una remota isla tropical. La historia probablemente tuvo como inspiracion hechos reales ocurridos a Pedro Serrano y Alexander Selkirk, a partir de donde construiria, con una trama sencilla y autentica, un simbolo del colonialismo, del hombre perfecto y de la moral suprema. Robinson Crusoe es la clasica novela de aventuras."

Robinson Crusoe Robinson Crusoe is a novel by Daniel Defoe that was first published in 1719. Epistolary, confessional, and didactic in form, the book is a fictional autobiography of the title character-a castaway who spends 28 years on a remote tropical island near Trinidad, encountering cannibals, captives, and mutineers before being rescued. The story was perhaps influenced by Alexander Selkirk, a Scottish castaway who lived for four years on the Pacific island called "Mas a Tierra" (in 1966 its name was changed to Robinson Crusoe Island), Chile. The details of Crusoe's island were probably...