Robinson Crusoe
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1. Front matter2. ILLUSTRATOR’S PREFACE3. THE ILLUSTRATIONS4. CHAPTER I Robinson’s Family—His Elopement from His Parents5. CHAPTER II First Adventures at Sea—Experience of a Maritime Life—Voyage to Guinea6. CHAPTER III Robinson’s Captivity at Sallee—Escape with Xury—Arrival at the Brazils7. CHAPTER IV He Settles in the Brazils as a Planter—Makes another Voyage and is Shipwrecked8. CHAPTER V Robinson Finds Himself on a Desolate Island and Procures a Stock of Articles from the Wreck—He Constructs His Habitation9. CHAPTER VI Robinson Carries all His Riches, Provisions, etc., into His Habitation—Dreariness of Solitude—Consolatory Reflections10. CHAPTER VII Robinson’s Mode of Reckoning Time—Difficulties Arising from Want of Tools—He Arranges His Habitation11. CHAPTER VIII Robinson’s Journal—Details of His Domestic Economy and Contrivances—Shock of an Earthquake12. CHAPTER IX Robinson Obtains More Articles from the Wreck—His Illness and Affliction13. CHAPTER X His Recovery—His Comfort in Reading the Scriptures—He Makes an Excursion into the Interior of the Island—Forms His “Bower”14. CHAPTER XI Robinson Makes a Tour to Explore His Island—Employed in Basket Making15. CHAPTER XII He Returns to His Cave—His Agricultural Labors and Success16. CHAPTER XIII His Manufacture of Pottery, and Contrivances for Baking Bread17. 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 Dress18. CHAPTER XV He Makes a Smaller Canoe in which He Attempts to Cruise Round the Island—His Perilous Situation at Sea—He Returns Home19. CHAPTER XVI He Rears a Flock of Goats—His Diary—His Domestic Habits and Style of Living—Increasing Prosperity20. CHAPTER XVII Unexpected Alarm—Cause for Apprehension—He Fortifies His Abode21. CHAPTER XVIII Precautions Against Surprise—Robinson Discovers that His Island Has Been Visited by Cannibals22. CHAPTER XIX Robinson Discovers a Cave, which Serves Him as a Retreat Against the Savages23. CHAPTER XX Another Visit of the Savages—Robinson Sees Them Dancing—He Perceives the Wreck of a Vessel24. CHAPTER XXI He Visits the Wreck and Obtains many Stores from it—Again Thinks of Quitting the Island—Has a Remarkable Dream25. CHAPTER XXII Robinson Rescues One of Their Captives from the Savages, Whom He Names Friday, and Makes His Servant26. CHAPTER XXIII Robinson Instructs and Civilizes His Man Friday and Endeavors to Give Him an Idea of Christianity27. 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 Savages28. 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 Vessel29. CHAPTER XXVI Robinson Discovers Himself to the English Captain—Assists Him In Reducing His Mutinous Crew, Who Submit to Him30. CHAPTER XXVII Atkins Entreats the Captain to Spare His Life—The Latter Recovers His Vessel from the Mutineers, and Robinson Leaves the Island