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This edition of Robinson Crusoe includes a Foreword, Biographical
Note, and Afterword by R. L. Fisher.
内容简介
This classic story of a shipwrecked mariner on a deserted
island is perhaps the greatest adventure in all of English
literature. Fleeing from pirates, Robinson Crusoe is swept ashore
in a storm possessing only a knife, a box of tobacco, a pipe-and
the will to survive. His is the saga of a man alone: a man who
overcomes self-pity and despair to reconstruct his life; who
painstakingly teaches himself how to fashion a pot, bake bread,
build a canoe; and who, after twenty-four agonizing years of
solitude, discovers a human footprint in the sand... Consistently
popular since its first publication in 1719, Daniel Defoe's story
of human endurance in an exotic, faraway land exerts a timeless
appeal. The first important English novel, Robinson Crusoe has
taken its rightful place among the great myths of Western
civilization.
作者简介
Daniel Defoe (born 1660, London, Eng.-died April 24, 1731,
London) British novelist, pamphleteer, and journalist. A
well-educated London merchant, he became an acute economic theorist
and began to write eloquent, witty, often audacious tracts on
public affairs. A satire he published resulted in his being
imprisoned in 1703, and his business collapsed. He traveled as a
government secret agent while continuing to write prolifically. In
1704–13 he wrote practically single-handedly the periodical Review,
a serious and forceful paper that influenced later essay
periodicals such as The Spectator. His Tour Through the Whole
Island of Great Britain, 3 vol. (1724–26), followed several trips
to Scotland. Late in life he turned to fiction. He achieved
literary immortality with the novel Robinson Crusoe (1719), which
drew partly on memoirs of voyagers and castaways. He is also
remembered for the vivid, picaresque Moll Flanders (1722); the
nonfictional Journal of the Plague Year (1722), on the Great Plague
in London in 1664–65; and Roxana (1724), a prototype of the modern
novel.