ROBINSON CRUSOE
Author:
Daniel Defoe
Year of
Publication: 1719
Type of
work: novel Picaresque.
Age: Age of
Augustan or age of Pope.
Robinson Crusoe is a novel by
Daniel Defoe, first publish on 25th April, 1719. This book is a Travelogue of true incidents. It
is Epistolary confessional and didactic in form, the book is a fictional
autobiography of the title character (whose birth name is Robinson Kreutznear)
– a castaway who spends years on a remote tropical Island near Trinidad.
The hero, Robinson Crusoe starts sail
from the “Queen’s Dock” in Hull on a sea voyage in August 1651, against the
wishes of his parents, who want him to pursue a career, possibly in law. After
a long journey where his ship is wrecked in a storm, his lust for the sea
remains so strong that he sets out to sea again. Only he and three animals, the
captain’s dog and two cats, survive the ship wreck overcoming despair, he
fetches arms, tools and other supplies from the ship before it breaks apart and
sinks. He adopts a small parrot. He reads a Bible and becomes religious,
thanking God for his fate in which nothing is missing out but human society.
More years pass and Crusoe
discovers native cannibals, who occasionally visit the Island to kill and eat
prisoners. One of them is “Friday”. Crusoe teaches his English an converts him
to Christianity. Crusoe leaves the Island on 19th des. 1686, arrives
England on 19th Jun 1687.
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