Robinson Crusoe
Daniel Defoe · c. 1660–1731
Librarian’s score7.8Claude · AI
Readers—Shown after five ratings
A castaway counts his tools, builds, farms and keeps accounts with God for twenty-eight years. The plain, list-making prose made fiction feel like a true record and helped start the English novel, and the island became a story retold everywhere. The book’s view of Friday and of colonies is of its time, and long stretches read more as inventory than as life.