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The book that invented the modern novel, the self-made man, and three centuries of desert island fantasies — Robinson Crusoe is stranger and more subversive than you remember.
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I was born in the year 1632, in the city of York, of a good family, though not of that country, my father being a foreigner of Bremen, who settled first at Hull. He got a good estate by merchandise, and leaving off his trade, lived afterwards at York, from…
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- Chapter I. Start In LifeFree
- Chapter II. Slavery And EscapeFree
- Chapter III. Wrecked On A Desert IslandFree
- Chapter IV. First Weeks On The IslandFree
- Chapter V. Builds A House—the JournalFree
- Chapter VI. ILL And Conscience-strickenFree
- Chapter VII. Agricultural ExperienceFree
- Chapter VIII. Surveys His PositionFree
- Chapter IX. A BoatFree
- Chapter X. Tames GoatsFree
- Chapter XI. Finds Print Of Man’s Foot On The SandFree
- Chapter XII. A Cave RetreatFree
- Chapter XIII. Wreck Of A Spanish ShipFree
- Chapter XIV. A Dream RealisedFree
- Chapter XV. Friday’s EducationFree
- Chapter XVI. Rescue Of Prisoners From CannibalsFree
- Chapter XVII. Visit Of MutineersFree
- Chapter XVIII. The Ship RecoveredFree
- Chapter XIX. Return To EnglandFree
- Chapter XX. Fight Between Friday And A BearFree
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