Robinson Crusoe

Daniel Defoe, 1719

Daniel Defoe’s novel, told by Robinson Crusoe himself, a York-born sailor who is shipwrecked alone on an island off the coast of South America and lives there for twenty-eight years.

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All evils are to be considered with the good that is in them, and with what worse attends them.
Chapter IVIn context
- Good & Evil
Now I saw, though too late, the folly of beginning a work before we count the cost, and before we judge rightly of our own strength to go through with it.
Chapter IXIn context
- Work
All our discontents about what we want appeared to me to spring from the want of thankfulness for what we have.
Chapter IXIn context
- Happiness
We never see the true state of our condition till it is illustrated to us by its contraries, nor know how to value what we enjoy, but by the want of it.
Ch. 10, Tames Goats.In context
- Experience
To-day we love what to-morrow we hate; to-day we seek what to-morrow we shun; to-day we desire what to-morrow we fear, nay, even tremble at the apprehensions of.
Chapter XIIn context
- Change
- Emotion
Fear of danger is ten thousand times more terrifying than danger itself
Chapter XIIn context
- Fear
It is never too late to be wise
Chapter XIIIn context
- Wisdom

Chapter IStart in Life
Chapter IISlavery and Escape
Chapter IIIWrecked on a Desert Island
Chapter IVFirst Weeks on the Island
Chapter VBuilds a House—The Journal
Chapter VIIll and Conscience-Stricken
Chapter VIIAgricultural Experience
Chapter VIIISurveys His Position
Chapter IXA Boat
Chapter XTames Goats
Chapter XIFinds Print of Man’s Foot on the Sand
Chapter XIIA Cave Retreat
Chapter XIIIWreck of a Spanish Ship
Chapter XIVA Dream Realised
Chapter XVFriday’s Education
Chapter XVIRescue of Prisoners from Cannibals
Chapter XVIIVisit of Mutineers
Chapter XVIIIThe Ship Recovered
Chapter XIXReturn to England
Chapter XXFight Between Friday and a Bear

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