The Life and Adventures of Robinson Crusoe
Read The Life and Adventures of Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe in Spanish and English, a parallel text graded reader with audio. Available in CEFR levels A2, B1, B2, and C2.
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A young man from York cannot sit still. His father, a prudent merchant, pleads with him to stay home and keep to the "middle station of life," warning that any other course invites ruin. The son sails anyway. From Hull he goes to sea and into the teeth of storms that run mountains high, into capture and slavery at Sallee, into a desperate escape and a fortune half-made in Brazil — and at last onto the shore of an uninhabited island, the sole survivor of a wreck, with nothing but the sea, the rocks, and two distant islands for company.
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Nací en el año 1632, en la ciudad de York.
I was born in the year 1632, in the city of York.
Mi familia era buena, pero no éramos de ese país.
My family was good, but we were not from that country.
Mi padre era un extranjero de Bremen, y primero se instaló en Hull.
My father was a foreigner from Bremen, and he first settled in Hull.
Ganó mucho dinero comerciando.
He earned a lot of money by trading.
Más tarde, dejó de trabajar y vivió en York en cambio.
Later, he stopped working and lived in York instead.
Allí, se había casado con mi madre.
There, he had married my mother.
La familia de ella se llamaba Robinson, una familia muy buena en esa zona.
Her family was called Robinson, a very good family in that area.
History
- Written by Daniel Defoe in English
- Adapted by Line by Line Publishing in 2026