The Life and Adventures of Robinson Crusoe
Twenty-eight years alone, accounted for in ledgers and inventories — the first novel to sound like a real person's log.
- Listening time
- about 13 h
- Length
- 120,746 words
- First published
- 1719
- Public domain
- the author died in 1731
- Edition
- Edition and cover by Standard Ebooks, released CC0
- Download in the app
- 623 KB stored on your device
- Language
- English
- Shelf
- The Long Haul
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How it begins.
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.
The Life and Adventures of Robinson Crusoe · Daniel Defoe · 1719
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