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Title: The Life and Adventures of Robinson Crusoe (1808)

Author: Daniel Defoe

Release Date: June 15, 2004 [eBook #12623]

Language: English

Character set encoding: US-ASCII

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Editorial note: Daniel Defoe's tale of Robinson Crusoe was first
published in 1719. Numerous--almost countless--
versions were published subsequently. Several are
available in Project Gutenberg's library, including
our e-books #521, 561, 5902, 6328, 6936, 11239, and
11866 (http://www.gutenberg.net/etext/521 etc.).
Various tales have been included in the different
versions, usually under the names of "The Adventures
of Robinson Crusoe," "The Further Adventures of
Robinson Crusoe," and "Robinson Crusoe's Vision of
the Angelic World." Even an account of the
adventures of Alexander Selkirk, who was marooned
for four years on an island in the Pacific Ocean,
has been incorporated into some versions of the
Robinson Crusoe stories. This e-book, taken from an
1808 edition, includes "The Adventures of Robinson
Crusoe" and "The Further Adventures of Robinson
Crusoe."

THE LIFE AND ADVENTURES OF ROBINSON CRUSOE

by DANIEL DE FOE

London.

18O8

[Illustration: I had one labour to make me a Canoe,
which at last I finished.]

THE LIFE OF DE FOE

Daniel De Foe was descended from a respectable family in the county of
Northampton, and born in London, about the year 1663. His father, James
Foe, was a butcher, in the parish of St. Giles's, Cripplegate, and a
protestant dissenter. Why t