Robinson Crusoe

Robinson Crusoe is a novel by , first published on 25 April 1719. The first edition credited the work's protagonist Robinson Crusoe as its author, leading many readers to believe he was a real person and the book a of true incidents and in form, the book is presented as an autobiography of the title character (whose birth name is Robinson Kreutznaer) – a who spends 28 years on a remote tropical near the coasts of and , roughly resembling , encountering , captives, and mutineers before being rescued. The story has been thought to be based on the life of , a Scottish castaway who lived for four years on a Pacific island called "Más a Tierra" (now part of ) which was renamed in 1966.