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Excerpt: THE PREFACE; If ever the story of any private Man?s Adventures in the World were worth making Publick, and were acceptable when Publish?d, the Editor of this Account thinks this will be so. The Wonders of this Man?s Life exceed all that (he thinks)is to be found extant; the Life of one Man being scarce capable of a greater Variety. The Story is told with Modesty, with Seriousness, and with a religious Application of Events to the Uses to which wise Men always apply them (viz.) to the Instruction of others by this Example, and to justify and honour the Wisdom of Providence in all the Variety of our Circumstances, 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 however thinks, because all such things are dispatch?d, that the Improvement of it, as well to the Diversion, as to the Instruction of the Reader, will be the same; and as such, he thinks, without father Compliment to the World, he does them a great Service in the Publication....

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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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...ife and Strange Surprizing Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, of York, Mariner DANIEL DEFOE 1719 Contents THE PREFACE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .... ... Strange Surprizing Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, of York, Mariner DANIEL DEFOE 1719 Contents THE PREFACE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ... ... me upon this Subject: He ask’d me what Reasons more than a meer wandring Daniel Defoe 3 Inclination I had for leaving my Father’s House and my nativ... ...n this Subject: He ask’d me what Reasons more than a meer wandring Daniel Defoe 3 Inclination I had for leaving my Father’s House and my native Count... ...o let me go but one V oyage abroad, if I came home again and did not like Daniel Defoe 5 it, I would go no more, and I would promise by a double Dili... ...e go but one V oyage abroad, if I came home again and did not like Daniel Defoe 5 it, I would go no more, and I would promise by a double Diligence t... ...ure. In a word, as the Sea was returned to its Smoothness, of Surface and Daniel Defoe 7 settled Calmness by the Abatement of that Storm, so the Hurr... ... a word, as the Sea was returned to its Smoothness, of Surface and Daniel Defoe 7 settled Calmness by the Abatement of that Storm, so the Hurry of my... ...ump. At that very Word my Heart, as I thought, died within me, and Daniel Defoe 9 I fell backwards upon the Side of my Bed where I sat, into the Cabb...

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Excerpt: It was about the beginning of September, 1664, that I, mong the rest of my neighbors, heard in ordinary dis course that the plague was returned again in Holland; for it had been very violent there, and particularly at Amsterdam and Rotterdam, in the year 1663, whither, they say, it was brought, some said from Italy, others from the Levant, among some goods which were brought home by their Turkey fleet; others said it was brought from Candia; others from Cyprus. It mattered not from whence it came; but all agreed it was come into Holland again....

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Excerpt: That homely proverb, used on so many occasions in England, viz. ?That what is bred in the bone will not go out of the flesh,? was never more verified than in the story of my Life. Any one would think that after thirty-five years? affliction, and a variety of unhappy circumstances, which few men, if any, ever went through before, and after near seven years of peace and enjoyment in the fullness of all things; grown old, and when, if ever, it might be allowed me to have had experience of every state of middle life, and to know which was most adapted to make a man completely happy; I say, after all this, any one would have thought that the native propensity to rambling which I gave an account of in my first setting out in the world to have been so predominant in my thoughts, should be worn out, and I might, at sixty one years of age, have been a little inclined to stay at home, and have done venturing life and fortune any more....

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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 had married my mother, whose relations were named Robinson, a very good family in that country, and from whom I was called Robinson Kreutznaer; 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....

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...Shipwrecked and castaway, Daniel DeFoe’s hard-luck character is still the standard for “growing where you’re planted.” Captured by pirates, he makes his break in a small boat and undergoes desperate adventures before winning his way back to civilizati...

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