On April 25, 1719 — 300 years ago — the London publisher William Taylor issued what has since become one of the most famous books in the world. Its original title page read “The Life and Strange ...

Send Help” is just the latest take on a survivalist premise that dates to the 1719 novel “Robinson Crusoe.” These six movies ...

I’ve always loved books. I’m told that I learned to read before I started school, and I well remember wanting to go to the local library every time we went ...

Robinson Crusoe was stranded on a desert island. He behaved as if he were the only person on the island until one day he discovered a footprint on the sand. From that moment he realized that he was ...

Selcraig’s unseemly past in Lower Largo is not exactly a literary mystery. The limited amount of factual material about the spirited lad has been mined numerous times, from the early 1800s to 1939 and ...

An archaeological dig unearths evidence of the campsite of castaway Alexander Selkirk, the model for Robinson Crusoe. Cast away on a desert island, surviving on what nature alone can provide, praying ...

Robinson Crusoe is one of the first, most famous, most influential, and most widely translated of books, which today is available in every written language, including Latin, classical Greek, Chinese, ...

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