4. Daniel Defoe was a famous English writer of the eighteenth
century.
5. Daniel travelled much and wrote many books. One
day he met a sailor who told him his story.
6. Alexander Selkirk worked on a ship as a sailor.
The captain was so angry with him that he left
him on a desert island. Alexander lived there
for more than four years.
7. When Defoe was sixty years old, he decided to write a novel about
the life of that sailor.
8. His character Robinson Crusoe managed to live using only the things
he had on the island. He met a black man whom he called Friday.
10. When the novel was published it made Defoe famous.
He wrote many other books, but for “Robinson Crusoe”
he is called “the father of English prose”.
