A brief biography -- essentially accurate, and a tad irreverent. The footnotes are a hoot. If you want a real biography, go to our library and check out Paula Backscheider's excellent work, Daniel Defoe: His Life, call number PR 3406 .B24 1989.

Full Text of Robinson Crusoe. This can be very useful-remember that you can search for words and phrases in a Netscape document by selecting "Edit" and then selecting "Find."

The Friday Site gives a hypermedia presentation of the story from Friday's perspective. I haven't checked this site out thoroughly yet, but it looks interesting.

An article on Alexander Selkirk, the historical model for Robinson Crusoe, is available on the web. The site reprints an article originally in The Explorer's Journal.

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