When the real story of Alexander Selkirk, a seaman that was left in a desert island near the coasts of Chile and who lived many years in solitude until his rescue, inspired Daniel Defoe to write another of his novels based on real facts, but presenting them as if they were a newspaper description of the facts. In the case of Robinson Crusoe, to give the illusion that they were actual memories of the writer, the first edition didn't even have the name of Defoe in the cover of the book. This is a novel that keeps its interest all over and is considered one of the monuments of literature.