书名：Robinson Crusoe 鲁滨逊漂流记
难度：Lexile蓝思阅读指数920
作者：Daniel Defoe丹尼尔·笛福
出版社名称：Signet Classics
出版时间：2008
语种：英文
ISBN：9780451530776
商品尺寸：10.6 x 2.1 x 17.1 cm
包装：简装
页数：322 （以实物为准）

Robinson Crusoe《鲁滨逊漂流记》是18世纪英国有名作家笛福的代表作，主要讲述了主人公鲁滨逊因航海不幸流落荒岛后，积极利用自己的力量求生的故事。笛福用其细腻的笔触，塑造了一个强者，他以“只要不向苦难低头，终将取得成功”的信念，激励了无数人。小说语言自然流畅，文字通俗易懂，非常值得一读。本书为Signet Classics推出的英文原版，内容完整无删节，书本小巧便携，方面随身携带，适合中学及以上的外国文学爱好者阅读。
Thus Crusoe begins his journal inDaniel Defoe's classic novel:the vividly realistic account of a solitary castaway’s triumph over natureitself—over the crippling fears, self-doubt, and loneliness that are inescapable parts of the human condition.
For almost three centuries, Robinson Crusoe has remained one of the best known and most read tales in modern literature—a popularity owing as much to the enduring freshness and immediacy of its style as to its widely acknowledged status as the very first English novel.
With anIntroductionby Paul Theroux and a New afterword by Robert Mayer

Daniel Defoe’s classic novel is the vividly realistic account of a solitary castaway’s triumph over nature—and of the fears, self-doubt and loneliness that are parts of human nature. For almost three centuries, Robinson Crusoe has remained one of the best known and most read tales in modern literature, a popularity owing as much to the enduring freshness and immediacy of its style as to its widely acknowledged status as the very first English novel.

Daniel Defoewas a Londoner, born c. 1660 at St. Giles, Cripplegate, the son of James Foe, a tallow-chandler and member of the Butchers’ Company. Daniel began to use the name ‘De Foe’ c. 1695. He was educated for the Presbyterian ministry at Morton’s Dissenting Academy at Newington Green, but decided he had no vocation and instead went into the wholesale hosiery business, acquiring premises in Cornhill. In 1685 he participated in Monmouth's unsuccessful rebellion. His business activities were extended into the wine trade and marine insurance, but in 1692 he was declared bankrupt. The consequences of this debacle pursued him for the rest of his life, though he profited from the experience by becoming an expert in bankruptcy law, which he had some influence in reforming.
Paul Therouxis the award-winning author of such novels asPicture Palace(winner of the Whitbread Prize for fiction)andThe Mosquito Coast,My Secret History,Saint JackandKowloon Tong.He has also publishednumerous bestselling travel books, includingThe Great Railway Bazaar,The Kingdom by the sea, andThe Pillars of Hercules.
Robert Thayeris Professor of British Literature and Director of the Screen Studies Program at Oklahoma State University. He isthe author ofHistory and the Early English Novel: Matters of Fact from Bacon to Defoeand the editor ofEighteenth-Century Fiction on Screen.His recent work includestheessay ‘‘Robinson Crusoe in Hollywood’’andan ongoing study of authorshipandreading that focuses on Sir Walter Scott.

Introduction
Preface
I Go to Sea
I Am Captured by Pirates
I Escape From the Sallee Rover
I Become a Brazilian Planter
I Go on Board in an Evil Hour
I Furnish Myself with Many Things
I Build My Fortress
The Journal
I Throw Away the Husks of Corn
It Blows a Most Dreadful Hurricane
I Am Very Ill and Frighted
I Take a Survey of the Island
I Sow My Grain
I Travel Quite Across the Island
I Am Very Seldom Idle
I Make Myself a Canoe
I Improve Myself in the Mechanic Exercises
I Find the Print of a Man’sNaked Foot
I See the Shore Spread with Bones
I Seldom Go from My Cell
I See the Wreck of a Ship
I Hear the First Sound of a Man’sVoice
I Call Him Friday
We Make Another Canoe
We March Out Against the Cannibals
We Plan a Voyage to the Colonies Of America
We Quell a Mutiny
We Seize the Ship
I Find My Wealth All About Me
We Cross the Mountains
I Revisit My Island
Afterword
Selected Bibliography

Iwas born in the year 1632, in the city ofYork, of a good family, though not of that country, my father being a foreigner ofBremen, who settled first at hull. he got a good estate by merchandise, and leaving off his trade, lived afterwards atYork, from whence he had married my mother, whose relations were namedRobinson, a very good family in that country, and from whomIwas calledRobinsonKreutznaer; but, by the usual corruption of words inEngland, 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 Inever 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.