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 proicnd versatile writer, he wrotemore than five hundred boos,aphles,ndjurnals onvarious topics (including politics, crime, religion, marriage, psychology and the supernatural). He was also a pioneer of economic journalism.
《鲁滨孙漂流记(英文版)》: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 gogod 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, an fo 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 Americans,captives, and mutineers before being rescued.This device, presenting an account ofsupposedly factual events, is known as a “falsedocument” and gives a realistic frame story.