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Robinson Crusoe

Daniel Defoe

Robinson Crusoe

Paper book: €53.99

Digital: €14.99

Original publication
1719
Bilingual edition
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

A bare footprint on a desert island. Robinson Crusoe, an Englishman who survived a shipwreck, has lived alone on an island for fifteen years. One day, around noon, he finds the print of a bare foot in the sand. He…

The world of the book

In the days of the tall ships. In 1651, Robinson Crusoe, a young Englishman from the city of York, goes to sea against his father’s wishes. He travels as far as Africa and Brazil. In 1659, his ship is wrecked off the…

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