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...Excerpt: 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 afterwards at York, from whence he...

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Table of Contents: THE PREFACE, 1 -- THE LIFE AND ADVENTURES OF ROBINSON CRUSOE, &c., 2 -- THE JOURNAL., 51

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...The Life and Strange Surprizing Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, of York, Mariner DANIEL DEFOE 1719 Contents THE PREF... ... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 THE LIFE AND ADVENTURES OF ROBINSON CRUSOE, &c. . . . . . . 2 THE JOURNAL. . . . . . . . . . . . . ... .... . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51 ii CONTENTS THE PREFACE If ever the story of any private Man’s Adventures in the World were worth making Publick, and... ... let them happen how they will. The Editor believes the thing to be a just History of Fact; neither is there any Appearance of Fiction in it: And howe... ...st V oyage that ever Man made; for tho’ I did not carry quite 100 l. of my new gain’d Wealth, so that I had 200 left, and which I lodg’d with my Frien... ...Miser I was to go thro’, as will appear in the Sequel of this Story. As my new Patron or Master had taken me Home to his House, so I was in hopes that... ...t go and leave the happy View I had of being a rich and thriving Man in my new Plantation, only to pursue a rash and immoderate Desire of rising faste... ...t not forget, that we had in the Ship a Dog and two Cats, of whose eminent History I may have occasion to say something in its place; for I carry’d bo... ...wfare of the Brain, the Memory, in this Night’s Time: I run over the whole History of my Life in Miniature, or by Abridgment, as I may call it, to my ...

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