His ornaments, unlike those of the Sabine
[sic]
maid, have not crushed him.—
Introductory
Essay to Longfellow
.
Crusoe (Robinson), the hero and title of a novel by Daniel Defoe. Robinson Crusoe is a shipwrecked sailor, who leads a solitary life for many years on a desert island, and relieves the tedium of life by ingenious contrivances (1719).
(The story is based on the adventures of Alexander Selkirk, a Scotch sailor, who in 1704 was left by Captain Stradding on the uninhabited island of Juan Fernandez. Here he remained for four years and four months, when he was rescued by Captain Woods Rogers and brought to England.)
Was there ever anything written by mere
man that the reader wished longer except
Robinson
Crusoe, Don Quixote