Robinson Crusoe, un náufrago inglés que pasa 28 años en una remota isla tropical, donde a pesar de las muchas dificultades, logra sobrevivir. Las Aventuras de Robinson Crusoe es un alegato a favor de las potencialidades del ser humano: su afán de superación y su necesidad de hermanamiento con sus semejantes.
Título original: The Life and Strange Surprizing Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, of York. Mariner: Who lived Eight and Twenty Years, all alone in an un-inhabited Island on the Coast of America, near the Mouch of the Great River of Oroonoque; Having been cast on Shore by Shipureck, wherein all the Men perished but himself. With An Account how he was at last as strangely deliver`d by Pyrates. Written by Himself, 1919