DOWNLOAD ROBINSON CRUSOE – PART 14 Crusoe builds his friendship with Friday, teaching him English, Christianity, hunting with a gun, and working with tools. The two men develop a deep and trusting bond once Crusoe gets over his struggles with suspicion and doubts about Friday’s intentions. We find ourselves at that part of the novel [...]

DOWNLOAD ROBINSON CRUSOE – PART 13 Cannibals come to Crusoe’s island and make him believe there is a possibility of confrontation. But in this section of the book Crusoe meets his companion, Friday. He considers this man to be his servant and slave. An odd assumption since it is actually he, Robinson Crusoe, who is [...]

DOWNLOAD ROBINSON CRUSOE – PART 12 Crusoe worries about being attacked if his presence is discovered by cannibals who visit the island. He finds a spectacular cave and then, during a night storm, hears a cannon shot. Get all the previous parts here Subscribe to audio podcast Subscribe to audio with iTunes Read by Alessandro [...]

DOWNLOAD ROBINSON CRUSOE – PART 11 Crusoe makes another shocking discovery and sets himself on a course of action that leads him to one of the book’s most interesting passages. It is here, in Crusoe’s struggle with his own outrage and his ideas about what makes for civilized behavior, that Defoe begins to turn the [...]

DOWNLOAD ROBINSON CRUSOE – PART 10 Our lone character, Robinson Crusoe, succeeds in raising his herd of goats and learns to use them for meat, milk and cheese. But his shocking discovery on a beach shakes his foundation and fills him with dread. Subscribe to audio podcast Subscribe to audio with iTunes Read by Alessandro [...]

DOWNLOAD ROBINSON CRUSOE – PART 9 Let’s get on with our story, shall we? It’s a good story and reading it is a lot of fun. Difficult, but fun. Defoe’s language is up and down and backward and forward. It makes you think fast. Try picking up the book and reading any part of it [...]

DOWNLOAD ROBINSON CRUSOE – PART 8 Robinson Crusoe struggles to harvest his corn, make bread, build a boat and sew some clothes. The efforts he makes are constantly set back by mistakes and errors in judgment. He deals with his lack of expertise in the various arts that he must call upon with a certain [...]

DOWNLOAD ROBINSON CRUSOE – PART 7 Crusoe details how he learns to grow crops that will help sustain him when his ammunition runs out. He journeys to the far side of the island, finding better land and more plentiful game there. He describes the difficulties overcome in learning to weave baskets and cut lumber from [...]

DOWNLOAD ROBINSON CRUSOE – PART 6 Crusoe continues to offer the reader his journal entries, describing how he brought supplies from off the shipwreck. He battles sickness and finds a way to speed his recovery. He begins to read a copy of the Bible that he finds in one of his chests. This causes him [...]

DOWNLOAD ROBINSON CRUSOE – PART 5 Crusoe explains how he made his own tools and built his home on the island. He begins to show us his journal entries which track each day’s activities. He goes hunting and, much to his surprise, begins to use agriculture. All his mental efforts are bent toward making his [...]

DOWNLOAD ROBINSON CRUSOE – PART 4 Crusoe experiences a terrifying shipwreck and is the only survivor. His struggle for food, water, and a place to sleep begin. No matter what situation Crusoe finds himself in, he never stops thinking. Subscribe to audio podcast Subscribe to audio with iTunes Read by Alessandro Cima Illustration by NC [...]

DOWNLOAD ROBINSON CRUSOE – PART 3 In this section of the novel, Crusoe continues making good on his escape. He then makes a series of fateful decisions as he tries to get on his feet and make a life for himself. Defoe begins to get into the slavery issue and how it plays the major [...]

DOWNLOAD ROBINSON CRUSOE – PART 2 Crusoe learns more of what it means to be a seaman. He is captured off the west coast of Africa and made a slave. In this section of the novel we get into Defoe’s treatment of the issues of slavery and race. Reading the early parts of the novel, [...]

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