Daniel Defoe
8 ADVENTURE CLASSICS IN ONE PREMIUM EDITION
(Illustrated)
Robinson Crusoe, Captain Singleton, Memoirs of a Cavalier, Colonel Jack, Moll Flanders, Roxana, The Consolidator Illustrator: N. C. Wyeth & John W. Dunsmore
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Table of Contents
THE FARTHER ADVENTURES OF ROBINSON CRUSOE
ROXANA: The Fortunate Mistress
THE CONSOLIDATOR: Memoirs of Sundry Transactions from the World in the Moon
Biography
Novels
ROBINSON CRUSOE
Chapter 3 Wrecked on a Desert Island
Chapter 4 First Weeks on the Island
Chapter 5 Builds a House — The Journal
Chapter 6 Ill and Conscience–Stricken
Chapter 7 Agricultural Experience
Chapter 8 Surveys His Position
Chapter 11 Finds Print of Man’s Foot on the Sand
Chapter 13 Wreck of a Spanish Ship
Chapter 16 Rescue of Prisoners From Cannibals
Chapter 20 Fight Between Friday and a Bear
Robinson Crusoe on the beach.
Chapter 1
Start in Life
I was born in the year 1632, in the city of York, of a good family, though not of that country, my father being a foreigner of Bremen, who settled first at Hull. He got a good estate by merchandise, and leaving off his trade lived afterward at York, from whence he had married my mother, whose relations were named Robinson, a good family in that country, and from whom I was called Robinson Kreutznear; but by the usual corruption of words in England we are now called, nay, we call ourselves, and write our name, Crusoe, and so my companions always called me.
I had two elder brothers, one of which was lieutenant-colonel to an English regiment of foot in Flanders, formerly commanded by the famous Colonel Lockhart, and was killed at the battle near Dunkirk against the Spaniards; what became of my second brother I never knew, any more than my father and mother did know what was become of me.
Being the third son of the family, and not bred to any trade, my head began to be filled very early with rambling thoughts. My father, who was very ancient, had given me a competent share of learning, as far as house-education and a country free school generally goes, and designed me for the law, but I would be satisfied with nothing but going to sea; and my inclination to this led me so strongly against the will, nay, the commands, of my father, and against all the entreaties and persuasions of my mother and other friends, that there seemed to be something fatal in that propension of nature tending directly to the life of misery which was to befall me.
"My Father, a wise and grave Man, gave me serious excellent Counsel against what he foresaw was my Design."
My father, a wise and grave man, gave me serious and excellent counsel against what he foresaw was my design. He called me one morning into his chamber,