Chapter 11
"It happened one day about noon, going towards my boat, I was exceedingly surprised with the print of a man's naked foot on the shore." The iconic moment of terror that ends his settled solitude.
Read in Books4Free →The Footprint in the Sand
From Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe
The discovery of a single human footprint on the beach is perhaps the novel's most famous scene, shattering Crusoe's solitude and inaugurating years of paranoid terror.
Chapter 11
Crusoe's frantic theological reasoning about whether the print is the devil's, and his subsequent fortification of his dwelling in fear.
Read in Books4Free →Read or Listen to Robinson Crusoe on Books4Free
Every chapter free to read. Free audio narration on the opening chapter. Plus an AI study assistant that knows the book.
Open in Books4Free →