鲁滨逊漂流记（英文版）[RobinsonCrusoe]

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　　 《鲁滨孙漂流记(英文版)》：I WAS born in the year 1632 in the city of York of a good familythough 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 the usual corruption of words in England we are now called-nay we call ourselves and write our name-Crusoe; and so my companions always called me.
Rob/nson Crus0e is a novel by Daniel Defoe. Itwas first published in I7I9 and is sometimesconsidered to be the first novel in English. Thebook is a fictional autobiography of the titlecharacter an English castaway who spends 28years on a remote tropical island nearVenezuela encountering Native Americanscaptives and mutineers before being rescued.This device presenting an account ofsupposedly factual events is known as a “falsedocument” and gives a realistic frame story.

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　　 1704年，苏格兰水手赛尔科克在船上反叛，被抛到智利外海的一座荒岛上，生活了五年。笛福受到这一事件的启发，写成此书。《鲁滨孙漂流记》以真实具体、亲切自然的文风描写鲁滨孙孤独地在海上生活二十八年的经历，不仅在英国文学史上是个里程碑，而且在世界文学史上都可称作一部以现实主义文风写出的现代小说，由此，作者笛福就有了“现代小说之父”的美称。笛福一生笔耕不辍，作品包括新闻报道、政治宣传册等共有250种（另一说有500种）之巨。大量的写作磨练了笛福的笔锋，《鲁滨孙漂流记》不论是叙事，还是写景，大都能够使人如闯其声、如临其境，因而，阅读这部书的人在各国的小说读者群中一直高居榜首。此书自出版至今已被译成各种文字，在全球行销不衰几百版。据说，除《圣经》之外，《鲁滨孙漂流记》是世界上出版多的一本书。

作者简介

Daniel Defoe（c.I659——I73I, bornDaniel Foe）, was an　Englishwriter, journalist, andpamphleteer, who gainedenduring fame for his novelRobinson Crusoe. Defoe is notablefor being one of the earliestpractitioners of the novel, as hehelped to popularize the form inBritain, and is even referred to bysome as one of the founders ofthe English novel. As a prolificand versatile writer, he wrotemore than five hundred books,pamphlets, and journals onvarious topics （including politics, crime, religion, marriage, psychology and the supernatural）. He was also a pioneer of economic journalism.