Robinson Crusoe is an adventure novel by English writer Daniel Defoe, first published in 1719. Often credited as one of the first English novels, the book is presented as an autobiography of its title character—a castaway who spends 28 years on a remote tropical desert island near Trinidad, encountering isolation, savages, and cannibals before ultimately being rescued. The story was loosely i…
The Fortunes and Misfortunes of the Famous Moll Flanders is a classic picaresque novel written by English author Daniel Defoe and published in 1722. Written as a pseudo-autobiography, it recounts the turbulent, adventurous, and often scandalous life of a woman navigating the brutal economic realities of 17th- and 18th-century England through wit, disguise, and crime.