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Robinson Crusoe
Classic fiction
Robinson Crusoe
320 pages · First published 1719
Robinson Crusoe leaves England against his family’s wishes and pursues a life at sea that eventually leaves him the sole survivor of a shipwreck on a remote island. For years he builds shelter, grows food, domesticates animals, salvages supplies, and interprets survival through an increasingly intense religious framework. The discovery of other human beings—including the man he names Friday—changes the isolation that has defined his life. Daniel Defoe’s 1719 novel is foundational to the castaway genre, but its adventure and self-sufficiency themes are intertwined with colonialism, slavery, and assumptions about cultural hierarchy that modern readers should recognize.
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Slavery and exploitation
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