April 25

In literary history

• 1719Daniel Defoe published Robinson Crusoe at fifty-nine, after years of imprisonment, the pillory, and bankruptcy. The man who invented the solitary castaway had never in his chaotic life been anything close to alone.

Writers born on April 25

• Clarín (1852)

The Daily Canon for April 25

The Tao Te Ching by Laozi (-600).