Robinson Crusoe
Robinson Crusoe is shipwrecked and this is the story of his efforts to cope with solitude and making a tolerable existence with infinite ingenuity. He describes the visit of cannibals, his rescue from death...
DEFOE, Daniel
A Journal of the Plague Year
A sobering read, especially for those wishing to understand the human reactions towards an epidemic, in this case the Bubonic Plague. Although a novel, Defoe gives a chilling idea of isolation and dejection...
Moll Flanders
This is a spoof autobiography of the daughter of a lady exiled to Virginia, USA, after being convicted of theft. It is subtitled 'The Fortunes and Misfortunes of the Famous'. The daughter is left...