Susan Barton is shipwrecked and meets Crusoe and his slave Friday on an island. They live there for a very long time and never before a person reached this paradise.

But it's a strange paradise. Friday can't speak, because he has no tongue. Crusoe taught him a few words so Friday is able to do easy jobs like searching for wood. But they can't carry on daily conversations. Most of the time they say nothing. Sometimes Friday goes away and neither Crusoe nor Susan know what he is doing all the time.

One day miraculously a ship lands at their island and saves the three, but Crusoe dies during the crossing to England. Susan can't believe yet what happend on the island during the last year, so she decides to tell her story to an author called Mr. Foe. Unfortunately Mr. Foe doesn't want to tell the story as it happend. Her second problem is that, a woman with a slave prompts questions...

It was a nice story but didn't enthusiasticed me. On the other hand I can't wait to read "Robinson Crusoe".