Robinson Crusoe

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The hero of Daniel Defoe's novel Robinson Crusoe of 1719, a shipwrecked English sailor who, by virtue of his own ingenuity, survives for years on a small tropical island.

Robinson Crusoe

(Literary & Literary Critical Terms) the hero of Daniel Defoe's novel Robinson Crusoe (1719), who survived being shipwrecked on a desert island The character is supposedly based on the Scottish sailor Alexander Selkirk (1676-1721), who was marooned on one of the islets of Juan Fernández.

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Robinson Crusoe - the hero of Daniel Defoe's novel about a shipwrecked English sailor who survives on a small tropical island

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