edition follows this reprint in all essentials, though the spelling, capitalization, and punctuation have been frankly modernized. In its original form, Robinson Crusoe appeared without the division into chapters, which has been made here for convenience in reading. 1719. The Farther Adventures of Robinson Crusoe.

1720.

This continuation gives an account of Crusoe's visit to his island and of stirring adventures in China and Siberia. Friday is killed by savages.

Serious Reflections During the Life and Surprizing Adventures of Robinson Crusoe.

Defoe here identifies himself with his hero.

1720. Memoirs of a Cavalier.

1720.

The Life, Adventures, and Piracies of the Famous
Captain Singleton.

1722. The Fortunes and Misfortunes of the Famous Moll Flanders.

1722. A Journal of the Plague Year.

1722.

A graphic story of the dreadful plague that fell upon
London in 1665.

The History and Remarkable Life of the Truly Honour-
able Colonel Jacque.

The career of a male convict, written as a counterpart to Moll Flanders.

1724. A Tour Through the Whole Island of Great Britain. This book, completed in 1727, is the best single contemporary account that we have of the industries, manners, and customs of Defoe's England.

1725. The Complete English Tradesman.

Subsequently enlarged, with a view to giving merchants full directions in the conduct of business. 1727. An Essay on the History and Reality of Apparitions. Well-known for many diverting ghost stories.

THE

LIFE

AND

STRANGE SURPRIZING

ADVENTURES

OF

ROBINSON CRUSOE, Of TORK, MARINER:

Who lived Eight and Twenty Years,

all alone in an un-inhabited Island on the Coaft of AMERICA, near the Mouth of the Great River of ORO ONOQUE;

Having been caft on Shore by Shipwreck, wherein all the Men perifhed but himself.

WITH

An Account how he was at laft as ftrangely deliver'd by PYRATES.

Written by Himfelf.

LONDON:

Printed for W. TAYLOR at the Ship in Pater-Nofter Row. MDCCXIX.

Title-Page to the First Edition of Robinson Crusoe.

PREFACE TO FIRST EDITION

IF ever the story of any private man's adventures in the world were worth making public, and were acceptable when published, the editor of this account thinks this will be so.

The wonders of this man's life exceed all that (he thinks) is to be found extant; the life of one man being scarce capable of a greater variety.

The story is told with modesty, with seriousness, and with a religious application of events to the uses to which wise men always apply them; viz., to the instruction of others by this example, and to justify and honor the wisdom of Providence in all the variety of our circumstances, let them happen how they will.

The editor believes the thing to be a just history of fact; neither is there any appearance of fiction in it; and, however, thinks, because all such things are dispatched, that the improvement of it, as well to the diversion as to the instruction of the reader, will be the same; and as such, he thinks, without farther compliment to the world, he does them a great service in the publication.