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The Further Adventures of Robinson Crusoe

by Daniel Defoe

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  1. 01CHAPTER I--REVISITS ISLAND — part 1~25 min
  2. 02CHAPTER I--REVISITS ISLAND — part 2~25 min
  3. 03CHAPTER II--INTERVENING HISTORY OF COLONY — part 1~25 min
  4. 04CHAPTER II--INTERVENING HISTORY OF COLONY — part 2~21 min
  5. 05CHAPTER III--FIGHT WITH CANNIBALS — part 1~23 min
  6. 06CHAPTER III--FIGHT WITH CANNIBALS — part 2~14 min
  7. 07CHAPTER IV--RENEWED INVASION OF SAVAGES — part 1~25 min
  8. 08CHAPTER IV--RENEWED INVASION OF SAVAGES — part 2~25 min
  9. 09CHAPTER IV--RENEWED INVASION OF SAVAGES — part 3~12 min
  10. 10CHAPTER V--A GREAT VICTORY — part 1~25 min
  11. 11CHAPTER V--A GREAT VICTORY — part 2~8 min
  12. 12CHAPTER VI--THE FRENCH CLERGYMAN'S COUNSEL — part 1~25 min
  13. 13CHAPTER VI--THE FRENCH CLERGYMAN'S COUNSEL — part 2~25 min
  14. 14CHAPTER VI--THE FRENCH CLERGYMAN'S COUNSEL — part 3~24 min
  15. 15CHAPTER VI--THE FRENCH CLERGYMAN'S COUNSEL — part 4~10 min
  16. 16CHAPTER VII--CONVERSATION BETWIXT WILL ATKINS AND HIS WIFE — part 1~25 min
  17. 17CHAPTER VII--CONVERSATION BETWIXT WILL ATKINS AND HIS WIFE — part 2~9 min
  18. 18CHAPTER VIII--SAILS FROM THE ISLAND FOR THE BRAZILS — part 1~25 min
  19. 19CHAPTER VIII--SAILS FROM THE ISLAND FOR THE BRAZILS — part 2~15 min
  20. 20CHAPTER IX--DREADFUL OCCURRENCES IN MADAGASCAR — part 1~24 min
  21. 21CHAPTER IX--DREADFUL OCCURRENCES IN MADAGASCAR — part 2~20 min
  22. 22CHAPTER X--HE IS LEFT ON SHORE~22 min
  23. 23CHAPTER XI--WARNED OF DANGER BY A COUNTRYMAN — part 1~24 min
  24. 24CHAPTER XI--WARNED OF DANGER BY A COUNTRYMAN — part 2~4 min
  25. 25CHAPTER XII--THE CARPENTER'S WHIMSICAL CONTRIVANCE — part 1~25 min
  26. 26CHAPTER XII--THE CARPENTER'S WHIMSICAL CONTRIVANCE — part 2~3 min
  27. 27CHAPTER XIII--ARRIVAL IN CHINA — part 1~25 min
  28. 28CHAPTER XIII--ARRIVAL IN CHINA — part 2~12 min
  29. 29CHAPTER XIV--ATTACKED BY TARTARS~25 min
  30. 30CHAPTER XV--DESCRIPTION OF AN IDOL, WHICH THEY DESTROY — part 1~25 min

A few words to begin

That homely proverb, used on so many occasions in England, viz. "That what is bred in the bone will not go out of the flesh," was never more verified than in the story of my Life. Any one would think that after thirty-five years' affliction, and a variety of unhappy circumstances, which few men, if any, ever went through before, and after near seven years of peace and enjoyment in the fulness of all things; grown old, and when, if ever, it might be allowed me to have had experience of every state of middle life, and to know which was most adapted to make a man completely happy; I say, after all this, any one would have thought that the native propensity to rambling which I gave an account of in my first setting out in the world to have been so predominant in my thoughts, should be worn out, and I might, at sixty one years of age, have been a little inclined to stay at home, and have done venturing life and fortune any more. Nay, farther, the common motive of foreign adventures was taken away in me, for I had no fortune to make; I had nothing to seek: if I had gained ten thousand pounds I had been no richer; for I had already sufficient for me, and for those I had to leave it to; and what I had was visibly increasing; for, having no great family, I could not spend the income of what I had unless I would set up for an expensive way of living, such as a great family, servants, e…

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