La Parure de l'orage Painting by Rene Magritte

Daniel Defoe is considered as a pioneer in English novel who wrote the first English novel of a genius caliber Robinson Crusoe. Though Defoe wrote many novels, it was Robinson Crusoe which established his immediate and permanent fame in the literary world. Robinson Crusoe is a novel of adventure based on the experiences of the Scottish explorer Alexander Selkirk who wandered on an uninhabited island of Juan Fernandez, off the coast of Chile in the Pacific