Robinson Crusoe

Author: Daniel Defoe
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Publish Date: 2004-01-01
Features: The "New Curriculum Standard Designated Classics" series is selected based on the recommended reading list from the "Full-Time Compulsory Education Chinese Curriculum Standards" published by the Ministry of Education and the designated reading list from the "Senior High School Chinese Curriculum Standards." This series has the following characteristics:
1. Expert Introduction and Three-Point Self-Assessment (Key Points, Difficult Points, Knowledge Points, Self-Assessment). The series invites foreign literature experts and professors to write introductions, clarifying the key points, difficult points, and knowledge points of the classics, helping readers better understand them. The "Self-Assessment" at the end of each book lists review and reflection questions related to the classic, catering to the learning needs of middle school students, facilitating their study and revision for exams.
2. Abridgment. The series is abridged by foreign literature experts and professors. While ensuring the complete expression of the original work's essence, it shortens overly lengthy and redundant chapters, enabling students to better and faster understand the classics, save study time, and achieve better results.
3. Annotations. To help readers better understand the classics, the series invites experts and professors to provide detailed annotations on foreign literary schools, trends, historical events, historical figures, and place names mentioned in the classics. These annotations are not only convenient for students to read and understand the classics but also serve as references for teachers when preparing lessons.
Young Englishman Robinson Crusoe, driven by a high ambition to travel the world, leaves his family, crosses the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans, and undergoes countless dangers during his thrilling voyages. Eventually, his entire ship is tragically wrecked in the Pacific Ocean, leaving only him miraculously alive. He finds himself alone on a deserted island. From the gap of despair, he gains an insight into life, spending decades on the island. On the island, he works hard, tills the land, raises livestock, and grows rice and wheat, year after year, accompanied by loneliness, overcoming difficulties that ordinary people find hard to endure. He has fought wits with beasts and courageously with cannibalistic savages. The entire novel is both extraordinary and realistic, captivating readers, and is a classic of popular fiction that combines ideological depth, literary quality, and artistic excellence in the portrayal of a rogue.