Robinson Crusoe(鲁滨逊)

Book Description
Daniel Defoe's The Life and Strange Surprising Adventures of Robinson Crusoe was published as a fictional memoir in 1719. It was so commercially successful that he quickly wrote a sequel. Realizing that fake autobiographies made a good profit, Defoe wrote four more first-person narratives before 1724. The best known are Moll Flanders (1722), A Journal of the Plague Year (1722), and The Fortunate Mistress, or Roxana (1724).

Today Robinson Crusoe remains a popular adventure narrative. In fact, the book gave rise to the "Robinsonade," adventure tales that rework the structural elements of Crusoe's island tale. Moreover, the character of Robinson Crusoe is recognized as a literary and cultural icon, like Don Quixote, Don Juan, and Faust; the story of a man stuck on a deserted island has become familiar to nearly everyone in the Western world.

This is the edition of Reader Digest Association, which give you the fantasy of reading the adventure of Robinson Crusoe.

Book Dimension
length: (cm)21.6 　　　　　　　　　　　　　 width:(cm)14

Although never shipwrecked on a deserted island, Daniel Defoe was, like his unforgettable hero Robinson Crusoe, often forced to live by his wits. A prodigiously energetic, creative - and controversial - figure in his day, Defoe managed to sample about as much of life as could be sampled by any one man. Born in 1660, the son of a London butcher, he trained for the Presbyterian ministry - a career plan he abandoned - married early, and had a large family.

His most famous fiction, Robinson Crusoe was based on the actual adventures of a Scottish sailor, Alexander Selkirk, who marooned himself for over four years with little more than goats for company on an island off the coast of Chile.

Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
Chapter 5
Chapter 6
Chapter 7
Chapter 8
Chapter 9
Chapter 10
Chapter 11
Chapter 12
Chapter 13
Chapter 14
Chapter 15
Chapter 16
Chapter 17
Chapter 18
Chapter 19
Chapter 20
Chapter 21
Chapter 22
Chapter 23
Author Note