Robinson Crusoe /
Retold by Anne de Graaf : illustrated by Francois Ruyer
- Philippine edition published in 1997
- Denmark : Scandinavia Publishing House ; 1990 .
- 64 pages : color illustrations ; 25 cm .
- The classic for children .
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Robinson Crusoe is the fictional autobiography of the title character. As a young man, Crusoe sets out from England on a disastrous sea voyage. His passion for seafaring remains undiminished and so he sets out again, only to be shipwrecked a third time. His journey takes him to Brazil where he becomes a plantation owner. A third and final shipwrecking, however, leaves him stranded for 28 years on a remote island. There he becomes a devout Christian and believes his life lacks nothing but society.
The work is sometimes credited with being the first English novel.