Robinson Crusoe

By: Daniel Defoe

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Paperback | 1 June 1982 | Edition Number 1

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This classic story of a shipwrecked mariner on a deserted island is perhaps the greatest adventure in all of English literature. Fleeing from pirates, Robinson Crusoe is swept ashore in a storm possessing only a knife, a box of tobacco, a pipe-and the will to survive. His is the saga of a man alone: a man who overcomes self-pity and despair to reconstruct his life; who painstakingly teaches himself how to fashion a pot, bake bread, build a canoe; and who, after twenty-four agonizing years of solitude, discovers a human footprint in the sand... Consistently popular since its first publication in 1719, Daniel Defoe's story of human endurance in an exotic, faraway land exerts a timeless appeal. The first important English novel, Robinson Crusoe has taken its rightful place among the great myths of Western civilization.

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"Beyond the end of Robinson Crusoe is a new world of fiction. Even though it did not know itself to be a 'novel, ' and even though there were books that we might now call 'novels' published before it, Robinson Crusoe has made itself into a prototype . . . Perhaps because of all the novels that we have read . . . the novelty of Defoe's fiction is the more striking when we return to it. Here it is, at the beginning of things, with its final word reaching out into the future." -from the Introduction by John Mullan

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Preface	p. vii
A Warning	p. 1
The Storm	p. 5
Pirates	p. 11
Escape from Slavery	p. 16
Brazil	p. 27
Shipwreck	p. 34
Sole Survivor	p. 40
First Days	p. 50
The Journal: Food and Shelter	p. 59
The Journal: Natural Disasters	p. 70
The Journal: Illness	p. 76
The Journal: Recovery	p. 86
The Journal: Exploring the Island	p. 96
The Journal: Of Pots and Canoes	p. 102
The Journal: Reflections	p. 115
No Escape	p. 122
Further Improvements	p. 129
A Footprint	p. 138
Bones	p. 147
Fear and Isolation	p. 156
The Lost Ship	p. 165
Encounter with Savages	p. 174
Friday Observed	p. 184
Friday Instructed	p. 194
New Plans	p. 199
Savages Return	p. 207
Prisoners Freed	p. 217
The Mutineers	p. 225
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