ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

Detailed explanation-1: -This is the first edition of the famous castaway tale, The Life and Strange Surprizing Adventures of Robinson Crusoe (1719). It was written by Daniel Defoe (1660?

Detailed explanation-2: -This is the first edition of the famous castaway tale, The Life and Strange Surprizing Adventures of Robinson Crusoe (1719). It was written by Daniel Defoe (1660?

Detailed explanation-3: -Origins of the Crusoe saga In Robinson Crusoe Defoe wished to reveal the transformative powers of endurance, fortitude and energy. He wanted to invent a character broadened by his island experience and not lessened by it. And the adventure turned out even more extensive than Defoe might have originally hoped.

Detailed explanation-4: -Crusoe leaves the safety of his comfortable middle-class home in England and goes to sea. He is shipwrecked and becomes a castaway who spends years on a remote tropical island near Trinidad. He meets cannibals, captives and mutineers, and is eventually rescued.