Robinson Crusoe

Author: Daniel (English)
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Publish Date: 2004-06-01
Features: This book is specially launched to comprehensively improve students' basic language literacy and enrich their extracurricular reading life. It is part of the "Guidance Series for Extracurricular Reading of the Chinese Language Curriculum Standards." The book is edited by the renowned writer and Professor of the Department of Chinese at Peking University, Cao Wenxuan. Each book includes introductory texts before the main content, providing background knowledge to help students grasp what they are reading. Additionally, it includes reading prompts or commentary to broaden students' perspectives and deepen their reading impressions. We hope this book can bring a brand-new reading experience to students at all levels. Robinson Crusoe is a widely circulated and highly influential literary classic that embodies a strong spirit of bourgeois initiative and enlightenment. This novel was inspired by a real story from that time. In 1704, Scottish sailor Alexander Selkirk had a dispute with his captain at sea and was left stranded on an island, where he was rescued four years later. Selkirk did not accomplish any heroic deeds worth praising on the island, but the Robinson created by Defoe became a completely new person, becoming a hero in the eyes of the middle and small bourgeoisie at the time. He is an idealized image of a rising bourgeois in Western literature.
This book is specially launched to comprehensively improve students' basic language literacy and enrich their extracurricular reading life. It is part of the "Guidance Series for Extracurricular Reading of the Chinese Language Curriculum Standards." The book is edited by the renowned writer and Professor of the Department of Chinese at Peking University, Cao Wenxuan. Each book includes introductory texts before the main content, providing background knowledge to help students grasp what they are reading. Additionally, it includes reading prompts or commentary to broaden students' perspectives and deepen their reading impressions. We hope this book can bring a brand-new reading experience to students at all levels. Robinson Crusoe is a widely circulated and highly influential literary classic that embodies a strong spirit of bourgeois initiative and enlightenment. This novel was inspired by a real story from that time. In 1704, Scottish sailor Alexander Selkirk had a dispute with his captain at sea and was left stranded on an island, where he was rescued four years later. Selkirk did not accomplish any heroic deeds worth praising on the island, but the Robinson created by Defoe became a completely new person, becoming a hero in the eyes of the middle and small bourgeoisie at the time. He is an idealized image of a rising bourgeois in Western literature.