Daniel Defoe

Atalantis Major is a thinly veiled allegory describing the November 1710 election of the representative Scottish peers. The circumstances which surrounded this election were produced by the outcome of the previous month's General Election, which was a landslide for the Tories, and, to understand these circumstances, the impact of that Tory victory must be seen within the context of the political events of 1710. (Source: Bookshop)

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Robinson Crusoe's account of his life as the sole survivor of a shipwreck on an island somewhere in the Caribbean. Loosely based on a true account of Scottish sailor, Alexander Selkirk.