ROBINSON CRUSOE by Daniel Defoe - FULL AudioBook | Greatest?AudioBooks

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This first edition of 'Robinson Crusoe' credited the work's fictional protagonist Robinson Crusoe as its author, leading many readers to believe he was a real person and the book a travelogue of true incidents! It was published under an absurdly long original title («The Life and Strange Surprizing Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, Of York, Mariner: Who lived Eight and Twenty Years, all alone in an un-inhabited Island on the Coast of America, near the Mouth of the Great River of Oroonoque; Having been cast on Shore by Shipwreck, wherein all the Men perished but himself. With An Account how he was at last as strangely deliver'd by Pyrates»). Epistolary, confessional, and didactic in form, the book is a fictional autobiography of the title character (whose birth name is Robinson Kreutznaer)—a castaway who spends years on a remote tropical island near Trinidad, encountering cannibals, captives, and mutineers before being rescued. ? S u b s c r i b e : @GreatestAudioBooks ? T w i t t e r : This story is widely believed to have been influenced by the life of Alexander Selkirk, a Scottish castaway who lived for four years on the Pacific island called «Más a Tierra» (in 1966 its name was changed to Robinson Crusoe Island), Chile. However, other possible sources have been put forward as inspiration for this book. Despite its simple narrative style, Robinson Crusoe was well received in the literary world and is often credited as marking the beginning of realistic fiction as a...

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