Robinson Crusoe - Classics Club Author:Daniel Defoe The masterpiece of breathless excitement and perilous adventure that has caught and held the world's imagination for nearly 250 years... — Robinson Crusoe is certainly one great classic of English literature which should belong to everyone -- man, woman, or child. — Not as a chopped-up "book for children" but as a masterpiece for all ages, its hum... more »an interest and pure story-telling fascination are unmatched in all literature. Generations of readers testify to the timeless character of its lone-man-on-a-desert-island theme. Indeed, when the very last lone island in the outermost seas has become a thriving metropolis, it is safe to say that the islanders' favorite adventure book will still be Robinson Crusoe!« less