Ang Bagong Robinson is a Tagalog-language (tl) translation of Robinson der Jüngere, Joachim Heinrich Campe’s celebrated 1779 German adaptation of Daniel Defoe’s Robinson Crusoe. Campe’s version, written for children and structured as a father reading the story aloud to his children, was one of the most widely translated children’s books of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, appearing in dozens of languages worldwide.
This Filipino translation testifies to the global reach of Campe’s text and the universal appeal of the Robinson Crusoe narrative. Download this free public-domain EPUB to read the first volume of this remarkable linguistic journey in Tagalog.