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The life and surprising adventures of Robinson Crusoe, of York, mariner (1820)
The life and surprising adventures of Robinson Crusoe of York mariner - 1820 Author:Daniel Defoe Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: AND SURPRISING ADVENTURES or ROBINSON CRUSOE, OF YORK, MARINER: WHO LIVER EIGHT-AND.TWENTY YEAR, 4LL ALONE ON AN UNINHABITED ISLAND, ON THE COA... more »ST OF AMERICA, NEAR THE MOUTH OF THE GREAT RIVER OROONOQUE. AN ACCOUNT OF HIS TRAVELS ROUND THREE PARTI OF THE OtOlIC. KRITTEN SY HIMSELF. VOL. II. STEREOTYPE EDITION. LONDON: Printed by J. and C. Adtard, 23, BartholomewCloM; For J. SOUTEK, No. 73, St. Paul's Church-yard; Anb J. 8t W.-B. WHITTAKER, Ave-maria-lane. PREFACE. 1 HE success the former part of this work has met with in the world, has yet been no other than is acknowledged to be due to the surprising variety of the subject, and to the agreeable manner of the performance. All the endeavours of envious persons to reproach it with being a romance, to search it for errors in geography, inconsistency in the relation, and contradictions in the fact, have proved ineffectual, and as impotent as malicious. The just application of every incident, the religious and useful inferences drawn from every part, are so many testimonies to the good design of making it public, and must legitimate all the part that may be called invention, or parable in the story. The second part, if the Editor's opinion may pass, is (contrary to the usage of second parts) every way as entertaining as the first, contains as strange and surprising incidents, and as great a variety of them; nor is the application less serious, or suitable; and. doubtless will, to the sober, as well as ingenuous reader, be every way as profitable and diverting jand this makes the abridging this work as scandalous as it is knavish and ridiculous, seeing, while to shorten the book, that they may seem to reduce the value, they strip it of all those reflections, as well religious as...« less