This was an S&P purchase from Lymington market back in May 1979 and neither of us had ever read it. So that is 40 years of life on various bookcases for a 10p investment now finally being read!
It is actually quite a good book (and some say the first English novel). It has its longeurs as you would expect but it is not a long book (300 pages) and Defoe is quite an entertaining writer, although a bit full of Puritanism for my taste. But quite entertaining.
Somewhere toward the end, after 20+ years alone on the island, he has 3 visitors and remarks on the varied faiths that ‘My man Friday was a Protestant [educated as such by Crusoe], his father was a pagan and a cannibal and the Spaniard was a Papist. However I allowed liberty of conscience throughout my dominions…’
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