Robinson Crusoe

Defoe

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Defoe · 28 chapters

Chapters

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• THE ILLUSTRATIONSSample
• CHAPTER I Robinson’s Family—His Elopement from His Parents
• 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