This is an outstanding Christian book is presented as an autobiography of the title character (whose birth name is Robinson Kreutznaer).

Daniel Defoe published Robinson Crusoe on April 25, 1719.

An interesting fact is that the original title was 374 characters long: The Life and Strange Surprizing Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, Of York, Mariner: Who lived Eight and Twenty Years, all alone in an un-inhabited Island on the Coast of America, near the Mouth of the Great River of Oroonoque; Having been cast on Shore by Shipwreck, wherein all the Men perished but himself.

With An Account how he was at last as strangely deliver'd by Pyrates