Published in 1719, The Life and Strange Surprising Adventures of Robinson Crusoe was one of the first English novels, and the inspiration for a subgenre of adventure island stories that have been mostly targeted for children.
The newness of the novel as a literary form is apparent in the awkwardness of the preface’s introduction. The states, “The Editor believes the thing to be a just History of Fact; neither is there any Appearance of Fiction in it.” |
