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Robinson Crusoe — Daniel Defoe

Robinson Crusoe

Daniel Defoe

  • Adventure
  • Book language: English
  • 265 pages

Robinson Crusoe is Daniel Defoe’s adventure novel about a shipwreck and life on a deserted island. Through journal and narration, it follows the protagonist as he learns to survive, build shelter, and meet new people. A classic tale of endurance and solitude worth listening to.

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Contents

  1. ROBINSON CRUSOE
  2. ILLUSTRATOR’S PREFACE
  3. CONTENTS
  4. THE ILLUSTRATIONS
  5. ROBINSON CRUSOE CHAPTER I Robinson’s Family—His Elopement from His Parents
  6. CHAPTER II First Adventures at Sea—Experience of a Maritime Life—Voyage to Guinea
  7. CHAPTER III Robinson’s Captivity at Sallee—Escape with Xury—Arrival at the Brazils
  8. CHAPTER IV He Settles in the Brazils as a Planter—Makes another Voyage and is Shipwrecked
  9. CHAPTER V Robinson Finds Himself on a Desolate Island and Procures a Stock of Articles from the Wreck—He Constructs His
  10. CHAPTER VI Robinson Carries all His Riches, Provisions, etc., into His Habitation—Dreariness of Solitude—Consolatory Ref
  11. CHAPTER VII Robinson’s Mode of Reckoning Time—Difficulties Arising from Want of Tools—He Arranges His Habitation
  12. CHAPTER VIII Robinson’s Journal—Details of His Domestic Economy and Contrivances—Shock of an Earthquake
  13. CHAPTER IX Robinson Obtains More Articles from the Wreck—His Illness and Affliction
  14. CHAPTER X His Recovery—His Comfort in Reading the Scriptures—He Makes an Excursion into the Interior of the Island—Forms
  15. CHAPTER XI Robinson Makes a Tour to Explore His Island—Employed in Basket Making
  16. CHAPTER XII He Returns to His Cave—His Agricultural Labors and Success
  17. CHAPTER XIII His Manufacture of Pottery, and Contrivances for Baking Bread
  18. CHAPTER XIV Meditates His Escape from the Island—Builds a Canoe—Failure of His Scheme and Resignation to His Condition—H
  19. CHAPTER XV He Makes a Smaller Canoe in which He Attempts to Cruise Round the Island—His Perilous Situation at Sea—He Ret
  20. CHAPTER XVI He Rears a Flock of Goats—His Diary—His Domestic Habits and Style of Living—Increasing Prosperity
  21. CHAPTER XVII Unexpected Alarm—Cause for Apprehension—He Fortifies His Abode
  22. CHAPTER XVIII Precautions Against Surprise—Robinson Discovers that His Island Has Been Visited by Cannibals
  23. CHAPTER XIX Robinson Discovers a Cave, which Serves Him as a Retreat Against the Savages
  24. CHAPTER XX Another Visit of the Savages—Robinson Sees Them Dancing—He Perceives the Wreck of a Vessel
  25. CHAPTER XXI He Visits the Wreck and Obtains many Stores from it—Again Thinks of Quitting the Island—Has a Remarkable Dre
  26. CHAPTER XXII Robinson Rescues One of Their Captives from the Savages, Whom He Names Friday, and Makes His Servant
  27. CHAPTER XXIII Robinson Instructs and Civilizes His Man Friday and Endeavors to Give Him an Idea of Christianity
  28. CHAPTER XXIV Robinson and Friday Build a Canoe to Carry them to Friday’s Country—Their Scheme Prevented by the Arrival o
  29. CHAPTER XXV Robinson Releases a Spaniard—Friday Discovers His Father—Accommodation Provided for These New Guests, Who We
  30. CHAPTER XXVI Robinson Discovers Himself to the English Captain—Assists Him In Reducing His Mutinous Crew, Who Submit to

and 3 more chapters

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