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Daniel Defoe's "Robinson Crusoe" & the Robinsonades is a collection of various editions of Robinson Crusoe and similarly themed texts such as the popular The Swiss Family Robinson. The term "Robinsonades" is used to describe literary works about survival without the aid of civilization, frequently on a deserted island. This genre takes is name from the 1719 novel Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe.

END is a bibliographic database based on the Collection of British and American Fiction 1660-1830 held by the University of Pennsylvania's Rare Book & Manuscript Library. When completed, the database will include records of more than 3,000 novels and fictional narratives by canonical authors such as Daniel Defoe to Jane Austen as well as less well-known novelists like Mary Brunton and Mary Walker. Users will be able to perform both keyword and faceted searches across bibliographic records containing both edition-specific and copy-specific information about each novel.