Using the method of textual criticism three translations and adaptations of Robinson Crusoe texts are studied, concentrating on their literariness. Starting from the Hegelian concept of aesthetics all three texts include a moral-ideological message. The island structure is used to represent the putative naturalness of Christian faith or the alleged fulfillment of people living in a social hierarchy, or also to praise the value of the literature, which content is exhausted in the reproduction of existing morality.