
Daniel Defoe: Robinson Crusoe This reader is equipped with various auto scroller speeds to make a more pleasurable reading experience. β£ Color Scheme Selection in Settings β£ Select a text color and background color for a more enjoyable reading experience Robinson Crusoe is a novel by Daniel Defoe, first published on 25 April 1719. Epistolary, confessional, and didactic in form, the book is presented as an autobiography of the title character, a castaway who spends thirty years on a remote tropical island near Trinidad, encountering cannibals, captives, and mutineers, before ultimately being rescued.