Robinson Crusoe, by Daniel Defoe

Table of Contents

  1. Start in Life
  2. Slavery and Escape
  3. Wrecked on a Desert Island
  4. First Weeks on the Island
  5. Builds a House — The Journal
  6. Ill and Conscience–Stricken
  7. Agricultural Experience
  8. Surveys His Position
  9. A Boat
  10. Tames Goats
  11. Finds Print of Man’s Foot on the Sand
  12. A Cave Retreat
  13. Wreck of a Spanish Ship
  14. A Dream Realised
  15. Friday’s Education
  16. Rescue of Prisoners From Cannibals
  17. Visit of Mutineers
  18. The Ship Recovered
  19. Return to England
  20. Fight Between Friday and a Bear

List of Illustrations

  1. Robinson Crusoe on the beach.
  2. "My Father, a wise and grave Man, gave me serious excellent Counsel against what he foresaw was my Design."
  3. "For a Mile, or thereabouts, my Raft went very well . . . "
  4. " . . . and making it into a great Cross I set it up on the Shore where I first landed . . . "
  5. "All this while I sat upon the Ground very much terrify'd and dejected . . . "
  6. "In the Morning I took the Bible, and beginning at the New Testament, I began seriously to read it . . . "
  7. " . . . I reap'd it my Way, for I cut nothing off but the Ears, and carry'd it away in a great Basket which I had made . . . "
  8. " . . . and thus I every now and then took a little Voyage upon the Sea . . . "
  9. "I stood like one Thunder-struck, or as if I had seen an Apparition . . . "
  10. "I laid me down flat on my Belly, on the Ground, and began to look for the Place . . . "
  11. " . . . and then he kneel'd down again, kiss'd the Ground, and laid his Head upon the Ground, and taking me by the Foot, set my Foot upon his Head . . . "
  12. " . . . we cut and hew'd the out-side into the true Shape of a Boat . . . "
  13. " . . . and no sooner had he the Arms in his Hands, but as if they had put new Vigour into him, he flew upon his Murtherers, like a Fury . . . "
  14. "At first, for some time, I was not able to answer him one Word; but as he had taken me in his Arms, I held fast by him, or I should have fallen to the Ground."

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Robinson Crusoe on the beach.

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