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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.
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.
CHAPTER I START IN LIFE
CHAPTER II SLAVERY AND ESCAPE
CHAPTER III WRECKEDON A DESERT ISLAND
CHAPTER IV FIRST WEEKS ON THEISLAND
CHAPTER V BUILDS A HOUSE THE JOURNAL
CHAPTER VI ILL AND CONSCIENCE STRICKEN
CHAPTER VII AGRICULTURAL EXPERIENCE
CHAPTER VIII SURVEYS HIS POSITION
CHAPTER IX A BOAT
CHAPTER X TAMES GOATS
CHAPTER XI FINDS PRINT OF MAN'S FOOT ON THE SAND
CHAPTER XII A CAVE RETREAT
CHAPTER XIII WRECK OF A SPANISH SHIP
CHAPTER XIV A DREAM REALISED
CHAPTER XV FRIDAY'S EDUCATION
CHAPTER XVI RESCUE OF PRISONERS FROM CANNIBALS
CHAPTER XVII VISIT OF MUTINEERS
CHAPTER XVIII THE SHIP RECOVERED
CHAPTER XIX RETURN TO ENGLAND
CHAPTER XX FIGHT BETWEEN FRIDAY AND A BEAR
CHAPTER I START IN LIFE
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 did know what was became of me.
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