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The Life and strange Surprizing Adventures of Robinson Crusoe of York, Mariner: Who lived Eight and Twenty Years, all alone in an un-inhabited Island on the coast of America, near the Mouth of the Great River of Oroonoque; Having been cast on Shore by Shipwreck, where-in all the Men perished but himself. With An Account how he was at last as strangely deliver'd by Pyrates. Written by Himself.
1719/05/06 - Der erste Roman in englischer Sprache, geschrieben von Daniel Defoe, wird veröffentlich. Die neue literarische Form bewährt sich und das Buch wird ein ein grosser Erfolg.
"... and first, I let him know his name should be Friday, which was the day I saved his life: I called him so for the memory of the time. I likewise taught him to say Master; and then let him know that was to be my name..."