title: The Life and Strange Surprising Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, of York, Mariner (Oxford World's Classics)
author:  Daniel Defoe 
description: <br />"An exemplary text--scholarly and cheap enough to ask students to buy."--Robert Wess, <em>Oregon State University</em>
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  # The Life and Adventures of Robinson Crusoe
  
  
  
  
  
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  ## by  
  
  
  Daniel Defoe
  
  
  ## With Illustrations by H. M. Brock
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  # Chapter I
  
  
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  ## 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.
  
  
  I had two elder brothers, one of whom was lieutenant-colonel to an English
  regiment of foot in Flanders, formerly commanded by t