Robinson Crusoe
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Being the third son of the family, and not bred to any trade, my head began to be filled very early with rambling thoughts.
Never any young adventurer’s misfortunes, I believe, began sooner, or continued longer than mine.
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- Chapter I. Robinson’s Family—His Elopement from His ParentsSample
- Chapter II. First Adventures at Sea—Experience of a Maritime Life—Voyage to Guinea
- Chapter III. Robinson’s Captivity at Sallee—Escape with Xury—Arrival at the Brazils
- Chapter IV. He Settles in the Brazils as a Planter—Makes another Voyage and is Shipwrecked
- Chapter V. Robinson Finds Himself on a Desolate Island and Procures a Stock of Articles from the Wreck—He Constructs His Habitation
- Chapter VI. Robinson Carries all His Riches, Provisions, etc., into His Habitation—Dreariness of Solitude—Consolatory Reflections
- Chapter VII. Robinson’s Mode of Reckoning Time—Difficulties Arising from Want of Tools—He Arranges His Habitation
- Chapter VIII. Robinson’s Journal—Details of His Domestic Economy and Contrivances—Shock of an Earthquake
- Chapter IX. Robinson Obtains More Articles from the Wreck—His Illness and Affliction
- Chapter X. His Recovery—His Comfort in Reading the Scriptures—He Makes an Excursion into the Interior of the Island—Forms His “Bower”
- Chapter XI. Robinson Makes a Tour to Explore His Island—Employed in Basket Making
- Chapter XII. He Returns to His Cave—His Agricultural Labors and Success
- Chapter XIII. His Manufacture of Pottery, and Contrivances for Baking Bread
- 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 Dress
- Chapter XV. He Makes a Smaller Canoe in which He Attempts to Cruise Round the Island—His Perilous Situation at Sea—He Returns Home
- Chapter XVI. He Rears a Flock of Goats—His Diary—His Domestic Habits and Style of Living—Increasing Prosperity
- Chapter XVII. Unexpected Alarm—Cause for Apprehension—He Fortifies His Abode
- Chapter XVIII. Precautions Against Surprise—Robinson Discovers that His Island Has Been Visited by Cannibals
- Chapter XIX. Robinson Discovers a Cave, which Serves Him as a Retreat Against the Savages
- Chapter XX. Another Visit of the Savages—Robinson Sees Them Dancing—He Perceives the Wreck of a Vessel
- Chapter XXI. He Visits the Wreck and Obtains many Stores from it—Again Thinks of Quitting the Island—Has a Remarkable Dream
- Chapter XXII. Robinson Rescues One of Their Captives from the Savages, Whom He Names Friday, and Makes His Servant
- Chapter XXIII. Robinson Instructs and Civilizes His Man Friday and Endeavors to Give Him an Idea of Christianity
- 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 Savages
- 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 Vessel
- Chapter XXVI. Robinson Discovers Himself to the English Captain—Assists Him In Reducing His Mutinous Crew, Who Submit to Him
- Chapter XXVII. Atkins Entreats the Captain to Spare His Life—The Latter Recovers His Vessel from the Mutineers, and Robinson Leaves the Island