One Hundred World's Best Novels Condensed

David Copperfield to Quo Vadis, Don Quixote to The War of the Worlds — a hundred of the world's great novels, each condensed to a brisk summary with its author's life story, as read in 1919.

Robinson Crusoe

4 pages in this part of 100 Best Novels Condensed.

Robinson Crusoe

By DANIEL DEFOE Condensation by JAMES B. CONNOLLY My father designed me for the law, but I would be satisfied only with going to sea, and…

Robinson Crusoe: Africa

Various were my adventures after that first tempestuous voyage. Trading to Guinea in Africa, I was captured by a Turkish rover and sold…

Robinson Crusoe: Friday

One of the prisoners was Friday's father. The white man was a Spaniard, a survivor from a ship of which I had seen the wrecked hull on my…

Robinson Crusoe: Sheherazade

SHEHERAZADE THE marvelous tales that Sheherazade told to King Shahriar, stories of love and adventure and mad magic, cannot be attributed…

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