First published in 1719, "Robinson Crusoe" is a novel by Daniel Defoe and sometimes regarded as the first novel in English.. "Robinson Crusoe" is a fictional autobiography of the title character, an English castaway who spends 28 years on a remote tropical island near Venezuela, encountering Native Americans, captives, and mutineers before being rescued. This device, presenting an account of supposedly factual events, is known as a "false document" and gives a realistic frame story.
