The life and surprising adventures of Robinson Crusoe, of York, mariner:…

by Daniel Defoe

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Robinson Crusoe

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The Observer's 100 Greatest Novels of All Time (2003)

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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.

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Daniel Defoe relates the tale of an English sailor marooned on a desert island for nearly three decades. An ordinary man struggling to survive in extraordinary circumstances, Robinson Crusoe wrestles with fate and the nature of God. This edition features maps.

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