โ Scribed by Daniel Defoe
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The timeless tale of survival and adventure that set the standard for the English novel Robinson Crusoe is the only man still alive when his ship is destroyed in a terrible storm. Washing up on a deserted island, he realizes that he is stranded, with no immediate hope of rescue. Displaying remarkable ingenuity, Crusoe builds a crude home, raises crops, and keeps track of the passing days with a rudimentary calendar. Loneliness is his greatest adversary until a tribe of cannibals arrives with their intended victims. When one of the prisoners escapes, Crusoe rescues him. The shipwrecked sailor and his newfound companion, Friday & mdash;named for the day of the week on which Crusoe first meets him & mdash;band together to vanquish the cannibals and leave the Island of Despair forever. Based on the true accounts of eighteenth-century castaways, Robinson Crusoe popularized the then-new art form known as the novel. Nearly three hundred years after it was first published, it is still the rare classic with the power to thrill and edify in equal measure. This ebook has been professionally proofread to ensure accuracy and readability on all devices.;Cover Page -- Title Page -- Contents -- Chapter I-Start in Life -- Chapter II-Slavery and Escape -- Chapter III-Wrecked on a Desert Island -- Chapter IV-First Weeks on the Island -- Chapter V-Builds a House-The Journal -- Chapter VI-Ill and Conscience-Stricken -- Chapter VII-Agricultural Experience -- Chapter VIII-Surveys his Position -- Chapter IX-A Boat -- Chapter X-Tames Goats -- Chapter XI-Finds Print of Man's Foot on the Sand -- Chapter XII-A Cave Retreat -- Chapter XIII-Wreck of a Spanish Ship -- Chapter XIV-A Dream Realised -- Chapter XV-Friday's Education -- Chapter XVI-Rescue of Prisoners from Cannibals -- Chapter XVII-Visit of Mutineers -- Chapter XVIII-The Ship Recovered -- Chapter XIX-Return to England -- Chapter XX-Fight between Friday and a Bear -- Copyright Page.
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Robinson Crusoe is among the first novels written in English. Thanks to its extraordinary realism and drama, it is easily the longest-enduring work of popular fiction in the language. The story, probably based on the Pacific-island ordeal of castaway Alexander Selkirk, was presented by Daniel Defoe