Robinson Crusoe
The novel is written by Daniel Defoe. Robinson Crusoe is an adventure novel that is enormously popular particularly among young readers. The story is about a young man named Robinson Crusoe. Who is started on a desert island for 28 years.
Defying his father, Crusoe sets out on an adventure that was to change his life. On the journey, misfortune strikes and the ship is attacked by Turkish pirates and Crusoe is taken as a slave. After two years of slavery, he dramatically escapes and lands on an uninhabited island. While on the island , he finds a human foot print which is not his, and suspects to be that of cannibal barbarians. Crusoe even witnesses a human sacrifice where one of the men escapes from the barbaric etc.
Robinson rescues him, and names him 'Friday', in remembrance of the day he saved him. Friday is taught to speak English and becomes a great help and companion to Crusoe in his otherwise lonely life. Robinson finally escapes when a ship that has been a victim of mutiny arrives on the island. He helps the captain and the ship and eventually sets off back to London.
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