The Life and Adventures of Robinson Crusoe

by Daniel Defoe · language: en

Vocabulary level: Elementary · Flesch–Kincaid grade 19 · 1,974 sentences

Vocabulary level is estimated from word frequency, not an official CEFR classification.

Subjects: Adventure stories · Atlantic Ocean — Fiction · Castaways — Fiction · Crusoe, Robinson (Fictitious character) — Fiction

Words worth knowing: pestle · baize · firebrand · steerage · hanger · pickaxe · broadsword · southerly

The Life and Adventures of Robinson Crusoe By Daniel Defoe With Illustrations by H. M. Brock London Seeley, Service & Co. Limited 38 Great Russell Street Contents

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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