1719年，英国小说之父笛福写出了他的代表作《鲁滨逊漂流记》，该书主要讲述了一位不听父母劝告，执意出海经商的英国年轻人不幸发生船难后，凭借自己地勇敢和坚毅成功在新土地上生活下来的故事。表面上看，《鲁宾逊漂流记》这部小说讲述的是一个奇迹般的历险故事，但故事背后却隐含着人类共同面临的问题，也隐藏着人们所普遍渴望和梦想的东西，如向往的自由、孤筏重洋、英雄梦想、敢于行动、自立于世、勇于担当等。小说从出版至今，已出了几百版，几乎译成了世界上所有的文字。据说，除了《圣经》之外，《鲁滨逊漂流记》是出版*多的一本书。该书被誉为英国文学史上的*部长篇小说，一问世就风靡英国，成了世界文学宝库中一部不朽的名著。卢梭评价这本书是一部合乎情理地解决问题和通过实践来学习的经典。
【内容简介】
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*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，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，大都能够使人如闻其声、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，在全球行销量几百版。
【作者简介】
笛福（Daniel Defoe，1660－1731），英国小说家。笛福只受过中等教育，宗教上受其父的影响，一直保持不同于国教信仰的立场，政治上倾向于辉格党。笛福早年经营内衣、烟酒、羊毛等生意，到大陆各国贸易，又曾参加反对国教的叛乱，提倡筑路，办银行、保险业、女学、疯人院，并曾因反对贵族天主教势力而被捕入狱。笛福于59岁开始写作小说，因《鲁滨孙漂流记》一炮而红，此后写作了《鲁滨孙沉思集》、《辛格尔顿船长》、《杰克上校》、《罗克萨娜》等小说，还有若干传记。
【目录】
Table of Contents
Chapter I Start in Life ............................................................... 001
Chapter II Slavery and Escape ................................................. 016
Chapter III Wrecked on a Desert Island ................................031
Chapter IV First Weeks on the Island .....................................053
Chapter V Builds a House-The Journal ................................... 078
Chapter VI Ill and Conscience-Stricken .................................094
Chapter VII Agricultural Experience ...................................... 110
Chapter VIII Surveys His Position .......................................... 122
Chapter IX A Boat ......................................................................135
Chapter X Tames Goats .............................................................155
Chapter XI Finds Print of Man’s Foot on the Sand ................169
Chapter XII A Cave Retreat ..................................................... 185
Chapter XIII Wreck of a Spanish Ship....................................205
Chapter XIV A Dream Realised ............................................... 221
Chapter XV Friday’s Education ............................................... 240
Chapter XVI Rescue of Prisoners from Cannibals ................. 258
Chapter XVII Visit of Mutineers ............................................ 278
Chapter XVIII The Ship Recovered ...................................... 296
Chapter XIX Return to England .............................................. 316
Chapter XX Fight Between Friday and a Bear ........................ 334
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Chapter I Start in Life
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 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.
I had two elder brothers, one of whom was lieutenant-colonel to an English regiment of foot in Flanders, formerly commanded by the famous Colonel Lockhart, and was killed at the battle near Dunkirk against the Spaniards. What became of my second brother I never knew, any more than my father or mother knew what became of me.
Being the third son of the family and not bred to any trade, my head began to be filled very early with rambling thoughts. My father, who was very ancient, had given me a competent share of learning, as far as house-education and a country free school generally go, and designed me for the law; but I would be satisfied with nothing but going to sea; and my inclination to this led me so strongly against the will, nay, the commands of my father, and against all the entreaties and persuasions of my mother and other friends, that there seemed to be something fatal in that propensity of nature, tending directly to the life of misery which was to befall me.
My father, a wise and grave man, gave me serious and excellent counsel against what he foresaw was my design. He called me one morning into his chamber, where he was confined by the gout, and expostulated very warmly with me upon this subject. He asked me what reasons, more than a mere wandering inclination, I had for leaving father’s house and my native country, where I might be well introduced, and had a prospect of raising my fortune by application and industry, with a life of ease and pleasure. He told me it was men of desperate fortunes on one hand, or of aspiring, superior fortunes on the other, who went abroad upon adventures, to rise by enterprise, and make themselves famous in undertakings of a nature out of the common road; that these things were all either too far above me or
too far below me; that mine was the middle state, or what might be called the upper station of low life, which he had found, by long experience, was the best state in the world, the most suited to human happiness, not exposed to the miseries and hardships, the labour and sufferings of the mechanic part of mankind, and not embarrassed with the pride, luxury, ambition, and envy of the upper part of mankind. He told me I might judge of the happiness of this state by this one thing—viz. that this was the state of life which all other people envied; that kings have frequently lamented the miserable consequence of being born to great things, and wished they had been placed in the middle of the two extremes, between the mean and the great; that the wise man gave his testimony to this, as the standard of felicity, when he prayed to have neither poverty nor riches.
