Robinson Crusoe (edit title)

Shelfari edited the contributors of Robinson Crusoe 2 weeks ago.

• Added a contributor: Daniel Defoe: (Primary Author)

Shelfari edited the description of Robinson Crusoe 2 weeks ago.

• Full page color pastedown, illustrated boards and colored frontispiece with 7 other full page illustrations. Undated, circa 1940.

Shelfari edited the first sentence of Robinson Crusoe 2 weeks ago.

• 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 afterward 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,""Crusoe," and so my companions always called me.

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Shelfari edited the first sentence of Robinson Crusoe Friday, July 17 2009.

• 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 afterward 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.