The Sand Castle has similarities to Daniel Defoe’s adventure, Robinson Crusoe. First published in April 1719, it is a survival story of Crusoe, who is cast away on an uninhabite ...

There are few writers whose lives are as intriguing as their fiction, but Daniel Defoe, author of Moll Flanders, Robinson Crusoe and A Journal of the Plague Year, an account of his survival ...

In time, Mr. Morandi became an island attraction of his own, often compared to the titular castaway of Daniel Defoe’s 18th-century novel “Robinson Crusoe.” But in time, life changed for Mr ...