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Robinson Crusoe

Daniel Defoe · 1719
85%of this book is inside a 1600-word core English vocabulary
121,432words in the book
6,061different words
3,876beyond the core

Ranked #3 of 32 — easiest first.

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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 afterwards 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…

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