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Robinson Crusoe

Daniel Defoe

Robinson Crusoe

Paper book: €32.99

Digital: €7.99

Original publication
1719
Monolingual
12 June 2026
Pages
825
Difficulty
Medium
Genres
Adventure, Travel Writing
Moods
Escape it all, Understand myself
Translated from
English

Book summary

The only survivor of a shipwreck, Robinson Crusoe is washed up on a desert island. With what he saves from the wreck, he builds a shelter, learns to grow grain and keep goats, and counts the days by cutting notches in a post. One day, after years alone, he finds the print of a bare foot on the beach.

It is the first great survival novel, the one that inspired every castaway story since, and the name of Friday has become as famous as Robinson's.

Robinson tells his own adventure, like a diary, and the novel is easy to read in the language you are learning.

The plot

Sporet etter en bar fot på en øde øy. Robinson Crusoe, en engelskmann som har overlevd et skipsforlis, har bodd alene på en øy i femten år. En dag, ved middagstid, oppdager han sporet etter en bar fot i sanden. Han…

The world of the book

I de store seilskutenes tid. I 1651 drar Robinson Crusoe, en ung engelskmann fra byen York, til sjøs mot farens vilje. Han reiser helt til Afrika og Brasil. I 1659 forliser skipet hans utenfor kysten av Sør-Amerika…

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