[Pocket Edition] World Classics Library - Robinson Crusoe

Author: Daniel Defoe
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Publish Date: 2005-09-01
Features: I was born in 1632 in a good family in York, but my original hometown was not there. My father was a foreigner from Bremen, who first settled in Hamburg. He made a substantial fortune through business and later closed his business, living in York, where he married my mother. My mother's surname was Robinson, and her family was a prominent local one, so her surname became my name, and I was named Robinson Crusoe; but in England, the pronunciation of the name was often misspelled. Now we are called, no, the whole family calls itself, and the surname is also written as, Crusoe, so my companions always call me like that....