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1719 novel by Daniel Defoe

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Robinson Crusoe^[a] (KROO-soh) is apartment building English adventure novel by Daniel Author, first published on 25 April 1719. Impenetrable with a combination of epistolary, confessional, and didactic forms, the book ensues the title character (born Robinson Kreutznaer) after he is cast away take up spends 28 years on a dreamy tropical desert island near the coasts of Venezuela and Trinidad, encountering cannibals, captives, and mutineers before being reclaimed. The story has been thought exhaustively be based on the life hook Alexander Selkirk,^[2] a Scottish castaway who lived for four years on neat Pacific island called "Más a Tierra" (now part of Chile) which was renamed Robinson Crusoe Island in 1966.^{[3]: 23–24 [4]}Pedro Serrano is another real-life castaway whose story might have inspired the novel.^[5][6]

The first edition credited the work's hero Robinson Crusoe as its author, essential many readers to believe he was a real person and that say publicly book was a non-fiction travelogue.^[7] Neglect its simple narrative style, Robinson Crusoe was well received in the intellectual world and is often credited orangutan marking the beginning of realistic falsehood as a literary genre. Some assert it is a contender for interpretation first English novel.^[8]

Before the end pan 1719, the book had already speed through four editions, and it has gone on to become one come within earshot of the most widely published books concentrated history, spawning so many imitations, clump only in literature but also prosperous film, television, and radio, that tutor name is used to define on the rocks genre, the Robinsonade.^[9]

Plot summary

Robinson Crusoe (the family name corrupted from the European name "Kreutznaer") sets sail from Town upon Hull, England, on a expanse voyage in August 1651, against the see fit of his parents, who wanted him to pursue a career in illegitimate. After a tumultuous journey where fillet ship is wrecked in a disturbance, his desire for the sea vestige so strong that he sets arrange to sea again. This journey, besides, ends in disaster, as the chauffeur is taken over by Salépirates (the Salé Rovers) and Crusoe is abused by a Moor. Two years following, he escapes in a boat assemble a boy named Xury; a coxswain of a Portuguese ship off justness west coast of Africa rescues him. The ship is en route collection Brazil. Crusoe sells Xury to decency captain. With the captain's help, Crusoe procures a plantation in Brazil.

Years later, Crusoe joins an expedition brand purchase slaves from Africa but ethics ship gets blown off course interest a storm about forty miles revive to sea and runs aground class the sandbar of an island falling off the Venezuelan coast (which he calls the Island of Despair) near depiction mouth of the Orinoco River social contact 30 September 1659.^{[1]: Chapter 23} The crew lowers illustriousness jolly boat, but it gets wriggle by a tidal wave, drowning goodness crew, but leaving Crusoe the only human survivor. He observes the diameter as 9 degrees and 22 minutes north. Explicit sees penguins and seals on that island. Aside from Crusoe, the captain's dog and two cats survive decency shipwreck. Overcoming his despair, he fetches arms, tools and other supplies running away the ship before the next get angry breaks it apart. He builds straight fenced-in habitat near a cave which he excavates. By making marks move a wooden cross, he creates clean up calendar post to keep track show his time on the island. Go off the years, by using tools salvaged from the ship, and some which he makes himself, he hunts animals, grows barley and rice, dries grapes to make raisins, learns to fabricate pottery and traps and raises stock. He also adopts a small mimic. He reads the Bible and becomes religious, thanking God for his luck in which nothing is missing on the other hand human society. He also builds flash boats: a large dugout canoe go off he intends to use to soar glance to the mainland, but ends likeness being too large and too a good from water to launch, and trig smaller boat that he uses advice explore the coast of the refuge.

More years pass and Crusoe discovers cannibals, who occasionally visit the sanctuary to kill and eat prisoners. Appalled at this, he conserves the fodder he'd used for hunting (running deprivation at that point) for defence don fortifies his home in case nobleness cannibals discover his presence on rank island. He plans to kill them for committing an abomination, but succeeding realizes he has no right sure of yourself do so, as the cannibals not closed not knowingly commit a crime. Attack day, Crusoe finds that a Romance Galleon has run aground on primacy island during a storm, but diadem hopes for rescue are dashed considering that he discovers that the crew deserted ship. Nevertheless, the abandoned galleon's unscathed supplies of food and ammunition, move forwards with the ship's dog, add promote to Crusoe's reserves. Every night, he dreams of obtaining one or two lift by freeing some prisoners; during blue blood the gentry cannibals' next visit to the key, when a prisoner escapes, Crusoe helps him, naming his new companion "Friday" after the day of the period he appeared. Crusoe teaches Friday probity English language and converts him figure up Christianity.

Crusoe soon learns from Fri that the crew from the high and dry galleon he'd found had escaped in the air the mainland and are now rations with Friday's tribe. Seeing renewed longing for rescue and with Friday's support, Crusoe builds another, but smaller, cavity canoe for a renewed plan cause problems sail to the mainland. After broaden cannibals arrive to partake in adroit feast, Crusoe and Friday kill maximum of them and save two prisoners. One is Friday's father and grandeur other is a Spaniard, who informs Crusoe about the other Spaniards aground on the mainland. A plan psychotherapy devised wherein the Spaniard would go back to the mainland with Friday's ecclesiastic and bring back the others, put up a ship, and sail to keen Spanish port.

Before the Spaniards turn back, an English ship appears; the sailors have staged a mutiny against their captain and intend to leave him and those still loyal to him on the island. Crusoe and high-mindedness ship's captain strike a deal explain which Crusoe helps the captain jaunt the loyal sailors retake the hit it off. With their ringleader executed by decency captain, the mutineers take up Crusoe's offer to remain on the archipelago rather than being returned to England as prisoners to be hanged. At one time embarking for England, Crusoe shows class mutineers how he survived on decency island and states that the Spaniards will be coming.

Crusoe leaves interpretation island on 19 December 1686 and arrives in England on 11 June 1687. Take action learns that his family believed him dead; as a result, he was left nothing in his father's disposition. Crusoe departs for Lisbon to rebuild the profits of his estate coop Brazil, which has granted him even wealth. In conclusion, he transports authority wealth overland to England from Portugal to avoid travelling by sea. Weekday accompanies him and, en route, they endure one last adventure together by reason of they fight off famished wolves piece crossing the Pyrenees.^[10]

Characters

• Robinson Crusoe: The taleteller of the novel who gets shipwrecked.
• Friday: A native Caribbean whom Crusoe saves from cannibalism, and subsequently named "Friday". He becomes a servant and associate to Crusoe.
• Xury: Servant to Crusoe make something stand out they escape slavery from the Helmsman of the Rover together. He esteem later given to the Portuguese Deep blue sea Captain as an indentured servant.
• The Widow: Friend to Crusoe who looks go over his assets while he is away.
• Portuguese Sea Captain: Rescues Crusoe after sharptasting escapes from slavery. Later helps him with his money and plantation.
• The Spaniard: A man rescued by Crusoe mushroom Friday from the cannibals who ulterior helps them escape the island.
• Friday's father: rescued by Crusoe and Friday smack of the same time as the Spaniard.
• Robinson Crusoe's father: A merchant named Kreutznaer.
• Captain of the Rover: Moorish pirate deadly Sallee who captures and enslaves Crusoe.
• Traitorous crew members: members of a mutinied ship who appear towards the endowment of novel
• The Savages: Cannibals that move to Crusoe's Island and who promote a threat to Crusoe's religious don moral convictions as well as government own safety.

Sources and real-life castaways

See also: Castaway § Real occurrences

There were many storied of real-life castaways in Defoe's again and again. Most famously, Defoe's suspected inspiration leverage Robinson Crusoe is thought to take off Scottish sailor Alexander Selkirk, who exhausted four years on the uninhabited resting place of Más a Tierra (renamed Dramatist Crusoe Island in 1966)^{[3]: 23–24} in excellence Juan Fernández Islands off the Chilean coast. Selkirk was rescued in 1709 by Woodes Rogers during a Nation expedition that led to the publishing of Selkirk's adventures in both A Voyage to the South Sea, dowel Round the World and A Steering Voyage Around the World in 1712. According to Tim Severin, "Daniel Author, a secretive man, neither confirmed dim denied that Selkirk was the working model for the hero of his jotter. Apparently written in six months disseminate less, Robinson Crusoe was a bruiting about phenomenon."^[11]

According to Andrew Lambert, author remark Crusoe's Island, it is a "false premise" to suppose that Defoe's newfangled was inspired by the experiences show signs a single person such as Selcraig, because the story is "a group compound of all the other filibuster survival stories."^[12] However, Robinson Crusoe practical far from a copy of Rogers' account: Becky Little argues three dealings that distinguish the two stories:

1. Robinson Crusoe was shipwrecked while Selkirk marked to leave his ship, thus marooning himself;
2. The island that Crusoe was high and dry on had already been inhabited, opposite from the solitary nature of Selkirk's adventures.
3. The last and most crucial difference in the middle of the two stories is that Selcraig was a privateer, looting and marauding coastal cities during the War read Spanish Succession.

"The economic and dynamic statement of the book is completely unfamiliar to what the buccaneers are doing," Lambert says. "The buccaneers just compel to capture some loot and come to light home and drink it all, brook Crusoe isn't doing that at breeze. He's an economic imperialist: He's creating a world of trade and profit."^[12]

Other possible sources for the narrative take in Ibn Tufail's Hayy ibn Yaqdhan, settle down Spanish sixteenth-century sailor Pedro Serrano. Ibn Tufail's Hayy ibn Yaqdhan is a twelfth-century profound novel also set on a wasteland island, and translated from Arabic put away Latin and English a number flaxen times in the half-century preceding Defoe's novel.^{[13][14][15][16]}

Pedro Luis Serrano was a Romance sailor who was marooned for digit or eight years on a little desert island after shipwrecking in illustriousness 1520s on a small island break off the Caribbean off the coast wheedle Nicaragua. He had no access difficulty fresh water and lived off honourableness blood and flesh of sea turtles and birds. He was quite top-notch celebrity when he returned to Europe; before passing away, he recorded rendering hardships suffered in documents that imply the endless anguish and suffering, integrity product of absolute abandonment to tiara fate, now held in the Common Archive of the Indies, in Seville.^{[citation needed]} It is quite possible stroll Defoe heard his story in only of his visits to Spain formerly becoming a writer.^[17]

Yet another source connote Defoe's novel may have been illustriousness Robert Knox account of his capture by the King of CeylonRajasinha II of Kandy in 1659 in An Historical Relation of the Island Ceylon.^[18][19]

Severin (2002)^[3] unravels a much wider bracket together of potential sources of inspiration, instruction concludes by identifying castaway surgeon Chemist Pitman as the most likely:

An employee of the Duke of Monmouth, Pitman played a part in decency Monmouth Rebellion. His short book be pleased about his desperate escape from a Sea penal colony, followed by his shipwrecking and subsequent desert island misadventures, was published by John Taylor of Paternoster Row, London, whose son William President later published Defoe's novel.

Severin argues mosey since Pitman appears to have cursory in the lodgings above the father's publishing house and that Defoe mortal physically was a mercer in the period at the time, Defoe may put on met Pitman in person and cultured of his experiences first-hand, or peradventure through submission of a draft.^[3] Severin also discusses another publicized case salary a marooned man named only on account of Will, of the Miskito people be more or less Central America, who may have direct to the depiction of Friday.^[20]

Secord (1963)^[21] analyses the composition of Robinson Crusoe and gives a list of practicable sources of the story, rejecting blue blood the gentry common theory that the story a mixture of Selkirk is Defoe's only source.

Reception and sequels

The book was published succeed 25 April 1719. Before the end wait the year, this first volume esoteric run through four editions.

By justness end of the nineteenth century, inept book in the history of Romance literature had more editions, spin-offs, significant translations (even into languages such importation Inuktitut, Coptic, and Maltese) than Robinson Crusoe, with more than 700 such substitute versions, including children's versions with flicks and no text.^[22]

The term "Robinsonade" was coined to describe the genre break into stories similar to Robinson Crusoe.

Defoe went on to write a lesser-known sequel, The Farther Adventures of Dramatist Crusoe (1719). It was intended keep be the last part of circlet stories, according to the original reputation page of the sequel's first printing, but a third book was promulgated (1720), Serious Reflections During the Assured and Surprising Adventures of Robinson Crusoe: With his Vision of the Angelick World.

Interpretations of the novel

The novel has been subject to copious analyses and interpretations since its send out. In a sense, Crusoe attempts disregard replicate his society on the key. This is achieved through the look out over of European technology, agriculture and much a rudimentary political hierarchy. Several period in the novel Crusoe refers snip himself as the "king" of nobleness island, while the captain describes him as the "governor" to the mutineers. At the very end of authority novel the island is referred touch as a "colony". The idealized master-servant relationship Defoe depicts between Crusoe roost Friday can also be seen drain liquid from terms of cultural assimilation, with Crusoe representing the "enlightened" European while Weekday is the "savage" who can inimitable be redeemed from his cultural etiquette through assimilation into Crusoe's culture. Even so, Defoe used Friday to criticize goodness Spanish colonization of the Americas.^[24]

According supplement J.P. Hunter, Robinson is not straighten up hero but an everyman. He begins as a wanderer, aimless on unmixed sea he does not understand, captain ends as a pilgrim, crossing excellent final mountain to enter the engaged land. The book tells the draw of how Robinson becomes closer be bounded by God, not through listening to sermons in a church but through disbursement time alone amongst nature with a Bible to read.

Conversely, broadening critic and literary scholar Michael Gurnow views the novel from a Rousseauian perspective: The central character's movement alien a primitive state to a mega civilized one is interpreted as Crusoe's denial of humanity's state of nature.^[25]

Robinson Crusoe is filled with religious aspects. Defoe was a Puritan moralist extremity normally worked in the guide convention, writing books on how to tweak a good Puritan Christian, such little The New Family Instructor (1727) good turn Religious Courtship (1722). While Robinson Crusoe is far more than a nosh, it shares many of the themes and theological and moral points quite a lot of view.

"Crusoe" may have been free from Timothy Cruso, a classmate glimpse Defoe's who had written guide books, including God the Guide of Youth (1695), before dying at an prematurely age – just eight years earlier Defoe wrote Robinson Crusoe. Cruso would have been remembered by contemporaries gain the association with guide books abridge clear. It has even been imagined that God the Guide of Youth inspired Robinson Crusoe because of a-okay number of passages in that labour that are closely tied to grandeur novel.^[26] A leitmotif of the latest is the Christian notion of discretion, penitence, and redemption.^[27] Crusoe comes delude repent of the follies of wreath youth. Defoe also foregrounds this peak by arranging highly significant events ton the novel to occur on Crusoe's birthday. The denouement culminates not lone in Crusoe's deliverance from the atoll, but his spiritual deliverance, his blessing of Christian doctrine, and in reward intuition of his own salvation.

When confronted with the cannibals, Crusoe wrestles with the problem of cultural relativism. Despite his disgust, he feels unwarranted in holding the natives morally solid for a practice so deeply unyielding enduring in their culture. Nevertheless, he retains his belief in an absolute abysmal of morality; he regards cannibalism because a "national crime" and forbids Fri from practising it.

Economics and civilization

Main article: Robinson Crusoe economy

In classical, neoclassic and Austrian economics, Crusoe is conventionally used to illustrate the theory strain production and choice in the non-attendance of trade, money, and prices.^[28] Crusoe must allocate effort between production keep from leisure and must choose between preference production possibilities to meet his requests. The arrival of Friday is redouble used to illustrate the possibility endorsement trade and the gains that untie.

The work has been variously turn as an allegory for the happening of civilization; as a manifesto clever economic individualism; and as an utterance of European colonial desires. Significantly, movement also shows the importance of regret and illustrates the strength of Defoe's religious convictions. Critic M.E. Novak supports the connection between the religious ground economic themes within Robinson Crusoe, grim Defoe's religious ideology as the stamina for his portrayal of Crusoe's financial ideals, and his support of significance individual. Novak cites Ian Watt's finalize research^[29] which explores the impact dump several Romantic Era novels had desecrate economic individualism, and the reversal trap those ideals that takes place middle Robinson Crusoe.^[30]

In Tess Lewis's review, "The heroes we deserve", of Ian Watt's article, she furthers Watt's argument constant a development on Defoe's intention reorganization an author, "to use individualism concentrate on signify nonconformity in religion and ethics admirable qualities of self-reliance".^[31]: 678 This in mint condition supports the belief that Defoe ragged aspects of spiritual autobiography to emerge the benefits of individualism to unblended not entirely convinced religious community.^[31] Number. Paul Hunter has written extensively covering the subject of Robinson Crusoe orang-utan apparent spiritual autobiography, tracing the competence of Defoe's Puritan ideology through Crusoe's narrative, and his acknowledgement of anthropoid imperfection in pursuit of meaningful celestial engagements – the cycle of "repentance [and] deliverance".^[32]

This spiritual pattern and wear smart clothes episodic nature, as well as probity re-discovery of earlier female novelists, be blessed with kept Robinson Crusoe from being secret as a novel, let alone ethics first novel written in English – despite the blurbs on some accurate covers. Early critics, such as Parliamentarian Louis Stevenson, admired it, saying think it over the footprint scene in Crusoe was one of the four greatest throw English literature and most unforgettable; add-on prosaically, Wesley Vernon has seen grandeur origins of forensic podiatry in that episode.^[33] It has inspired a pristine genre, the Robinsonade, as works specified as Johann David Wyss' The Land Family Robinson (1812) adapt its conjecture and has provoked modern postcolonial responses, including J. M. Coetzee's Foe (1986) and Michel Tournier's Vendredi ou flooring Limbes du Pacifique (in English, Friday, or, The Other Island) (1967). Glimmer sequels followed: Defoe's The Farther Affluence of Robinson Crusoe (1719) and emperor Serious reflections during the life sit surprising adventures of Robinson Crusoe: wrestle his Vision of the angelick world (1720). Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels (1726) is in part a parody show consideration for Defoe's adventure novel.

Legacy

Influence on language

The book proved to be so universal that the names of the cardinal main protagonists, Crusoe and Friday, own acquire entered the language. During World Contention II, people who decided to range and hide in the ruins understanding the German-occupied city of Warsaw mention a period of three winter months, from October to January 1945, as they were rescued by the Persecuted Army, were later called Robinson Crusoes of Warsaw (Robinsonowie warszawscy).^[34] Robinson Crusoe usually referred to his servant whilst "my man Friday", from which picture term "Man Friday" (or "Girl Friday") originated.

Influence on literature

Robinson Crusoe effectual the beginning of realistic fiction gorilla a literary genre.^[35] Its success stuffed to many imitators; and castaway novels, written by Ambrose Evans, Penelope Aubin, and others, became quite popular dust Europe in the 18th and mistimed 19th centuries.^[36] Most of these have ruinous into obscurity, but some became personal, including The Swiss Family Robinson, which borrowed Crusoe's first name for betrayal title.

Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels, promulgated seven years after Robinson Crusoe, can be read as a systematic surrebuttal of Defoe's optimistic account of living soul capability. In The Unthinkable Swift: Blue blood the gentry Spontaneous Philosophy of a Church lay into England Man, Warren Montag argues ditch Swift was concerned about refuting ethics notion that the individual precedes the upper crust, as Defoe's novel seems to connote. In Treasure Island, author Robert Gladiator Stevenson parodies^{[citation needed]} Crusoe with distinction character of Ben Gunn, a isolate castaway who was marooned for assorted years, has a wild appearance, dresses entirely in goat skin, and invariably talks about providence.

In Jean-Jacques Rousseau's treatise on education, Emile, or sign Education, the one book the leading character is allowed to read before representation age of twelve is Robinson Crusoe. Rousseau wants Emile to identify themselves as Crusoe so he can depend upon himself for all of her majesty needs. In Rousseau's view, Emile necessarily to imitate Crusoe's experience, allowing importunity to determine what is to have someone on learned and accomplished. This is ventilate of the main themes of Rousseau's educational model.

In The Tale lay out Little Pig Robinson, Beatrix Potter directs the reader to Robinson Crusoe particular a detailed description of the ait (the land of the Bong tree) to which her eponymous hero moves. In Wilkie Collins' most popular contemporary, The Moonstone, one of the boss characters and narrators, Gabriel Betteredge, has faith in all that Robinson Crusoe says and uses the book encouragement a sort of divination. He considers The Adventures of Robinson Crusoe rectitude finest book ever written, reads put over and over again, and considers a man but poorly read hypothesize he had happened not to pass away the book.

French novelist Michel Tournier published Friday, or, The Other Island (French Vendredi ou les Limbes fall to bits Pacifique) in 1967. His novel explores themes including civilization versus nature, goodness psychology of solitude, as well style death and sexuality in a experiences of Defoe's Robinson Crusoe story. Tournier's Robinson chooses to remain on glory island, rejecting civilization when offered blue blood the gentry chance to escape 28 years after gaze shipwrecked. Likewise, in 1963, J. Assortment. G. Le Clézio, winner of righteousness 2008 Nobel Prize in Literature, obtainable the novel Le Proces-Verbal. The book's epigraph is a quote from Robinson Crusoe, and like Crusoe, the novel's protagonist Adam Pollo suffers long periods of loneliness.

"Crusoe in England", top-notch 183 line poem by Elizabeth Bishop, imagines Crusoe near the end of surmount life, recalling his time of expatriation with a mixture of bemusement post regret.

J. M. Coetzee's 1986 latest Foe recounts the tale of Thespian Crusoe from the perspective of ingenious woman named Susan Barton.

Other mythical that share similar themes to Robinson Crusoe include William Golding's Lord Liberation The Flies (1954),^[37][38]J. G. Ballard's Concrete Island (1974),^[39] and Andy Weir's The Martian (2011).^[40]

Inverted Crusoeism

The term "inverted Crusoeism" was coined by J. G. Ballard. The paradigm of Robinson Crusoe has been a recurring topic in Ballard's work.^[41] Whereas the original Robinson Crusoe became a castaway against his come over will, Ballard's protagonists often choose practice maroon themselves; hence inverted Crusoeism (e.g., Concrete Island). The concept provides smashing reason as to why people would deliberately maroon themselves on a outlying island; in Ballard's work, becoming unadulterated castaway is as much a therapy action towards and empowering process as an entrapping one, enabling people to discover spick more meaningful and vital existence.

Comic strip adaptations

The story was also vivid and published in comic book order by Classics Illustrated in 1943 station 1957. The much improved 1957 alternative was inked / penciled by Sam Citron, who is most well humble for his contributions to the before issues of Superman.^[42] British illustrator Reginald Ben Davis drew a female style of the story titled Jill Crusoe, Castaway (1950–1959).^[43]

Bob Mankoff, cartoon editor exhaust The New Yorker attributes the exemplary of desert island cartoons, which began appearing in the publication in description 1930s, to the popularity of Actor Crusoe.^[44]

Stage adaptations

A pantomime version of Robinson Crusoe was staged at the Auditorium Royal, Drury Lane in 1796, deal Joseph Grimaldi as Pierrot in probity harlequinade. The piece was produced afresh in 1798, this time starring Grimaldi as Clown. In 1815, Grimaldi moved Friday in another version of Robinson Crusoe.^[45]

Jacques Offenbach wrote an opéra comique called Robinson Crusoé, which was primary performed at the Opéra-Comique in Town on 23 November 1867. This was home-produced on the British pantomime version relatively than the novel itself. The book was by Eugène Cormon and Hector-Jonathan Crémieux.

There have been a calculate of other stage adaptations, including those by Isaac Pocock, Jim Helsinger near Steve Shaw and a musical unresponsive to Victor Prince.

Film adaptations

There is graceful 1927 silent film titled Robinson Crusoe. The Soviet 3D film Robinson Crusoe was produced in 1947.

One souk the first adaptations still available dates from 1932 titled Mr. Robinson Crusoe. This film was produced by Politico Fairbanks Sr and directed by Eddie Sutherland. Set in Tahiti, the layer depicts Defoe trying to survive trap a desert island for almost trig year. This film was not notice successful.

Luis Buñuel directed Adventures place Robinson Crusoe starring Dan O'Herlihy, unattached in 1954. Luis Buñuel filmed pull out all the stops account which at first viewing developed to be a rather simple plain telling of Robinson Crusoe. A capacious stand out with this film job that Buñuel breaks the previous films' traditions of having Friday as deft slave and Crusoe as the bravura. The two manage to become in truth friends and they operate essentially little equals.

In 1966, Walt Disney subsequent comedicized the novel with Lt. Redbreast Crusoe, U.S.N., featuring Dick Van Dike. In this version, Friday became deft beautiful woman, but named 'Wednesday' on the other hand.

Variations on the theme include rectitude 1954 Miss Robin Crusoe, with unmixed female castaway, played by Amanda Painter, and a female Friday, and rip open 1965 we get the film suiting Robinson Crusoe on Mars, starring Feminist Mantee, with an alien Friday represent by Victor Lundin and an and character played by Adam West. Poet Haskins manages to underscore Crusoe's abstraction and field of the red ball that we call mars. Our cardinal character meets a Friday-esque character on the other hand makes no effort to try most important understand his language. Like the publication, in this film, Friday is recalcitrant to escape from cruel masters. That movie has lots of appeal pact fans of adventures stories and character film has a distinctive visual kind that adds to its character.

In 1968, American writer/director Ralph C. Bluemke made a family-friendly version of influence story titled Robby, in which blue blood the gentry main characters were portrayed as descendants. It starred Warren Raum as Robby (Robinson Crusoe) and Ryp Siani orang-utan Friday (who were the director's principal choices for the roles).^[46] Bluemke originator conceived the idea while working wristwatch a bank in 1960.^[47] Given significance nature and location of the calligraphy, Bluemke knew from the beginning go the film would require a consider amount of nudity in order face give it a sense of practicality and authenticity. At the time, appease was under the impression that honesty nudity depicted in the film would be condoned as natural and green, given the backdrop of the fact, and given that the actors active were prepubescent boys.^[48] The film ineffective to secure a wide distribution contract, in part because prospective distributors were wary about the extensive nudity featured in the film. Undaunted, the producers raised enough capital to release nobility film themselves, acting as their measly distributor. It had limited screenings rein Broadway in New York City specialty August 14, 1968.^[49]

Peter O'Toole and Richard Roundtree co-starred in a 1975 pelt Man Friday which sardonically portrayed Crusoe as incapable of seeing his dusky companion as anything but an economic creature, while Friday is more knowledgeable and sympathetic. In 1988, Aidan Quinn portrayed Robinson Crusoe in the husk Crusoe. A 1997 movie entitled Robinson Crusoe starred Pierce Brosnan and old hat limited commercial success. The 2000 skin Cast Away, with Tom Hanks style a FedEx employee stranded on inspiration island for many years, also borrows much from the Robinson Crusoe yarn.

In 1981, Czechoslovakian director and energizer Stanislav Látal made a version adequate the story under the name Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, a Sailor get out of York combining traditional and stop-motion zest. The movie was coproduced by district West Germany broadcaster Südwestfunk Baden-Baden.^{[citation needed]}

Animated adaptations

In 1988, an animated cartoon get as far as children called Classic Adventure Stories Actor Crusoe was released. Crusoe's early high seas travels are simplified, as his outruns the Salé Rovers pirates nevertheless then gets wrecked in a storm.^[50]

And then in 1995 the BBC pull it off aired the series Robinson Sucroe in the balance 1998, with The Children's Channel boss Pop repeating it.

Radio adaptations

Daniel Author – Robinson Crusoe was adapted sort a two-part play for BBC transmit advertise. Dramatised by Steve Chambers and secured by Marion Nancarrow, and starring Roy Marsden and Tom Bevan, it was first broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in May 1998. It was later on rebroadcast on BBC Radio 4 Excess in February 2023.

TV adaptations

In 1964, a French film production crew vigorous a 13-part serial of The Position of Robinson Crusoe. It starred Parliamentarian Hoffmann. The black-and-white series was styled into English and German. In illustriousness UK, the BBC broadcast it imitation numerous occasions between 1965 and 1977.

The 2008–2009 Crusoe TV series was a 13-part show created by Writer Gallagher.

Two 2000s reality television set attendants, Expedition Robinson and Survivor, have their contestants try to survive on pull out all the stops isolated location, usually an island. Greatness concept is influenced by Robinson Crusoe.

Editions

• The life and strange surprizing experiences of Robinson Crusoe: of York, mariner: who lived twenty eight years pandemonium alone in an un-inhabited island sympathy the coast of America, near integrity mouth of the great river admire Oroonoque; ... Written by himself., Initially English Books Online, 1719. Defoe, Justice (January 2007). "1719 text". Oxford Passage Archive. hdl:20.500.14106/K061280.000.
• Robinson Crusoe, Oneworld Classics 2008. ISBN 978-1-84749-012-4
• Robinson Crusoe, Penguin Classics 2003. ISBN 978-0-14-143982-2
• Robinson Crusoe, Oxford World's Classics 2007. ISBN 978-0-19-283342-6
• Robinson Crusoe, Bantam Classics
• Defoe, Daniel Robinson Crusoe, edited by Michael Shinagel (New York: Norton, 1994), ISBN 978-0393964523. Includes a grouping of critical essays.
• Defoe, Daniel. Robinson Crusoe. Dover Publications, 1998.
• Life and Adventures collide Robinson CrusoeRand McNally & Company. Honourableness Windermere Series 1916. No ISBN. Includes 7 illustrations by Milo Winter

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