Post by Sharon on Nov 13, 2021 20:35:57 GMT -6
I actually remember reading this book children version, as a third grader. I watched the film as an adult. I still consider this one of my favorite titles.
The Life and Adventures of Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe
www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/521
The Life and Adventures of Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe
www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/521
CHAPTER I.
START IN LIFE
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.
START IN LIFE
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.