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Robinson Crusoe

Daniel Defoe

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Author: Daniel Defoe. Language: English. Reading edition: 28 October 2026.

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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 afterward at York, from whence he had married my mother, whose relations were named Robinson, a very good family in that country, and from whom I was called Robinson Kreutznaer; but by the usual corruption of words in England we are now called, nay, we call ourselves, and write our name, Crusoe, and so my companions always called me.

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Contents

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  1. CHAPTER I Robinson’s Family—His Elopement from His Parents9 min
  2. CHAPTER II First Adventures at Sea—Experience of a Maritime Life—Voyage to Guinea19 min
  3. CHAPTER III Robinson’s Captivity at Sallee—Escape with Xury—Arrival at the Brazils30 min
  4. CHAPTER IV He Settles in the Brazils as a Planter—Makes another Voyage and is Shipwrecked27 min
  5. CHAPTER V Robinson Finds Himself on a Desolate Island and Procures a Stock of Articles from the Wreck—He Constructs His Habitation23 min
  6. CHAPTER VI Robinson Carries all His Riches, Provisions, etc., into His Habitation—Dreariness of Solitude—Consolatory Reflections8 min
  7. CHAPTER VII Robinson’s Mode of Reckoning Time—Difficulties Arising from Want of Tools—He Arranges His Habitation11 min
  8. CHAPTER VIII Robinson’s Journal—Details of His Domestic Economy and Contrivances—Shock of an Earthquake25 min
  9. CHAPTER IX Robinson Obtains More Articles from the Wreck—His Illness and Affliction15 min
  10. CHAPTER X His Recovery—His Comfort in Reading the Scriptures—He Makes an Excursion into the Interior of the Island—Forms His “Bower”27 min
  11. CHAPTER XI Robinson Makes a Tour to Explore His Island—Employed in Basket Making9 min
  12. CHAPTER XII He Returns to His Cave—His Agricultural Labors and Success15 min
  13. CHAPTER XIII His Manufacture of Pottery, and Contrivances for Baking Bread11 min
  14. CHAPTER XIV Meditates His Escape from the Island—Builds a Canoe—Failure of His Scheme and Resignation to His Condition—He Makes Himself a New Dress22 min
  15. CHAPTER XV He Makes a Smaller Canoe in which He Attempts to Cruise Round the Island—His Perilous Situation at Sea—He Returns Home18 min
  16. CHAPTER XVI He Rears a Flock of Goats—His Diary—His Domestic Habits and Style of Living—Increasing Prosperity16 min
  17. CHAPTER XVII Unexpected Alarm—Cause for Apprehension—He Fortifies His Abode17 min
  18. CHAPTER XVIII Precautions Against Surprise—Robinson Discovers that His Island Has Been Visited by Cannibals20 min
  19. CHAPTER XIX Robinson Discovers a Cave, which Serves Him as a Retreat Against the Savages15 min
  20. CHAPTER XX Another Visit of the Savages—Robinson Sees Them Dancing—He Perceives the Wreck of a Vessel13 min
  21. CHAPTER XXI He Visits the Wreck and Obtains many Stores from it—Again Thinks of Quitting the Island—Has a Remarkable Dream24 min
  22. CHAPTER XXII Robinson Rescues One of Their Captives from the Savages, Whom He Names Friday, and Makes His Servant19 min
  23. CHAPTER XXIII Robinson Instructs and Civilizes His Man Friday and Endeavors to Give Him an Idea of Christianity21 min
  24. CHAPTER XXIV Robinson and Friday Build a Canoe to Carry them to Friday’s Country—Their Scheme Prevented by the Arrival of a Party of Savages23 min
  25. CHAPTER XXV Robinson Releases a Spaniard—Friday Discovers His Father—Accommodation Provided for These New Guests, Who Were Afterward Sent to Liberate the Other Spaniards—Arrival of an English Vessel35 min
  26. CHAPTER XXVI Robinson Discovers Himself to the English Captain—Assists Him In Reducing His Mutinous Crew, Who Submit to Him27 min
  27. CHAPTER XXVII Atkins Entreats the Captain to Spare His Life—The Latter Recovers His Vessel from the Mutineers, and Robinson Leaves the Island19 min

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