Robinson Crusoe

Robinson Crusoe, published in 1719, was Defoe¿s first novel and survives as his best-known work. Loosely based on a true account of a Scottish sailor¿Alexander Selkirk¿it is a tale of one man¿s fall from grace and progress to redemption. The account of Crusoe¿s life, scratched out with rationed indigo ink on a dwindling supply of paper salvaged from the hull of a wrecked ship, speaks eloquently of the tenacity and ingenuity of the human spirit.