Robinson Crusoe

About this eBook

Author

Defoe, Daniel, 1661?-1731

Original Publication

United States: Cosmopolitan Book Corporation, 1920.

Credits

Aaron Adrignola and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This book was produced from images made available by the HathiTrust Digital Library.)

Language

English

LoC Class

PR: Language and Literatures: English literature

Subject

Castaways -- Fiction

Category

Text

Project Gutenberg

eBook-No. 70841

Release Date

May 23, 2023

Copyright

Public domain in the USA.

Contents

1. 1.ROBINSON CRUSOE — ILLUSTRATOR’S PREFACE — CONTENTS — THE ILLUSTRATIONS
2. 2.ROBINSON CRUSOE — CHAPTER I Robinson’s Family—His Elopement from His Parents
3. 3.CHAPTER II First Adventures at Sea—Experience of a Maritime Life—Voyage to Guinea
4. 4.CHAPTER III Robinson’s Captivity at Sallee—Escape with Xury—Arrival at the Brazils
5. 5.CHAPTER IV He Settles in the Brazils as a Planter—Makes another Voyage and is Shipwrecked
6. 6.CHAPTER V Robinson Finds Himself on a Desolate Island and Procures a Stock of Articles from the Wreck—He Constructs His Habitation
7. 7.CHAPTER VI Robinson Carries all His Riches, Provisions, etc., into His Habitation—Dreariness of Solitude—Consolatory Reflections
8. 8.CHAPTER VII Robinson’s Mode of Reckoning Time—Difficulties Arising from Want of Tools—He Arranges His Habitation
9. 9.CHAPTER VIII Robinson’s Journal—Details of His Domestic Economy and Contrivances—Shock of an Earthquake
10. 10.CHAPTER IX Robinson Obtains More Articles from the Wreck—His Illness and Affliction
11. 11.CHAPTER X His Recovery—His Comfort in Reading the Scriptures—He Makes an Excursion into the Interior of the Island—Forms His “Bower”
12. 12.CHAPTER XI Robinson Makes a Tour to Explore His Island—Employed in Basket Making
13. 13.CHAPTER XII He Returns to His Cave—His Agricultural Labors and Success
14. 14.CHAPTER XIII His Manufacture of Pottery, and Contrivances for Baking Bread
15. 15.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
16. 16.CHAPTER XV He Makes a Smaller Canoe in which He Attempts to Cruise Round the Island—His Perilous Situation at Sea—He Returns Home
17. 17.CHAPTER XVI He Rears a Flock of Goats—His Diary—His Domestic Habits and Style of Living—Increasing Prosperity
18. 18.CHAPTER XVII Unexpected Alarm—Cause for Apprehension—He Fortifies His Abode
19. 19.CHAPTER XVIII Precautions Against Surprise—Robinson Discovers that His Island Has Been Visited by Cannibals
20. 20.CHAPTER XIX Robinson Discovers a Cave, which Serves Him as a Retreat Against the Savages
21. 21.CHAPTER XX Another Visit of the Savages—Robinson Sees Them Dancing—He Perceives the Wreck of a Vessel
22. 22.CHAPTER XXI He Visits the Wreck and Obtains many Stores from it—Again Thinks of Quitting the Island—Has a Remarkable Dream
23. 23.CHAPTER XXII Robinson Rescues One of Their Captives from the Savages, Whom He Names Friday, and Makes His Servant
24. 24.CHAPTER XXIII Robinson Instructs and Civilizes His Man Friday and Endeavors to Give Him an Idea of Christianity
25. 25.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
26. 26.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
27. 27.CHAPTER XXVI Robinson Discovers Himself to the English Captain—Assists Him In Reducing His Mutinous Crew, Who Submit to Him
28. 28.CHAPTER XXVII Atkins Entreats the Captain to Spare His Life—The Latter Recovers His Vessel from the Mutineers, and Robinson Leaves the Island — Transcriber’s Notes

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