內容簡介
《魯濱孫漂流記》以真實具體、親切自然的文風描寫魯濱孫孤獨地在海上生活二十八年的經曆,不僅在英國文學史上是個裏程碑,而且在世界文學史上都可稱作第一部以現實主義文風寫齣的現代小說,由此,作者笛福就有瞭“現代小說之父”的美稱。笛福一生筆耕不輟,作品包括新聞報道、政治宣傳冊等共有250種(另一說有500種)之巨。大量的寫作磨練瞭笛福的筆鋒,《魯濱孫漂流記》不論是敘事,還是寫景,大都能夠使人如聞其聲、如臨其境,因而,閱讀這部書的人在各國的小說讀者群中一直高居榜首。此書自齣版至今已被譯成各種文字,在全球行銷不啻幾百版。
作者簡介
笛福(Daniel Defoe,1660?-1731),英國小說傢。笛福隻受過中等教育,宗教上受其父的影響,一直保持不同於國教信仰的立場,政治上傾嚮於輝格黨。笛福早年經營內衣、煙酒、羊毛等生意,到大陸各國貿易,又曾參加反對國教的叛亂,提倡築路,辦銀行、保險業、女學、瘋人院,並曾因反對貴族天主教勢力而被捕入獄。
笛福於59歲開始寫作小說,因《魯濱孫漂流記》一炮而紅,此後寫作瞭《魯濱孫沉思集》、《辛格爾頓船長》、《傑剋上校》、《羅剋薩娜》等小說,還有若乾傳記。
目錄
Chapter I Start in Life . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 001
Chapter II Slavery and Escape . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 010
Chapter III Wrecked on a Desert Island . . . . . . . . . . . . 018
Chapter IV First Weeks on the Island . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 031
Chapter V Builds a House-The Journal . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 046
Chapter VI Ill and Conscience-Stricken . . . . . . . . . . . . . 055
Chapter VII Agricultural Experience . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 065
Chapter VIII Surveys His Position . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . . 072
Chapter IX A Boat . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 079
Chapter X Tames Goats . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . 090
Chapter XI Finds Print of Man’s Foot on the Sand . . . . 099
Chapter XII A Cave Retreat . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . . 108
Chapter XIII Wreck of a Spanish Ship . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 120
Chapter XIV A Dream Realised . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . . 129
Chapter XV Friday’s Education . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . 140
Chapter XVI Rescue of Prisoners from Cannibals . . . . 151
Chapter XVII Visit of Mutineers . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . . 162
Chapter XVIII The Ship Recovered . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 173
Chapter XIX Return to England . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 185
Chapter XX Fight Between Friday and a Bear . . . . . . . . 195
精彩書摘
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.
He bade me observe it, and I should always find that the calamities of life were shared among the upper and lower part of mankind, but that the middle station had the fewest disasters, and was not exposed to so many vicissitudes as the higher or lower part of mankind; nay, they were not subjected to so many distempers and uneasinesses, either of body or mind, as those were who, by vicious living, luxury, and extravagances on the one hand, or by hard labour, want of necessaries, and mean or insufficient diet on the other hand, bring distemper upon themselves by the natural consequences of their way of living; that the middle station of life was calculated for all kind of virtue and all kind of enjoyments; that peace and plenty were the handmaids of a middle fortune; that temperance, moderation, quietness, health, society, all agreeable diversions, and all desirable pleasures, were the blessings attending the middle station of life; that this way men went silently and smoothly through the world, and comfortably out of it, not embarrassed with the labours of the hands or of the head, not sold to a life of slavery for daily bread, nor harassed with perplexed circumstances, which rob the soul of peace and the body of rest, nor enraged with the passion of envy, or the secret burning lust of ambition for great things; but, in easy circumstances, sliding gently through the world, and sensibly tasting the sweets of living, without the bitter; feeling that they are happy, and learning by every day’s experience to know it more sensibly.
After this he pressed me earnestly, and in the most affectionate manner, not to play the young man, nor to precipitate myself into miseries which nature, and the station of life I was born in, seemed to have provided against; that I was under no necessity of seeking my bread; that he would do well for me, and endeavour to enter me fairly into the station of life which he had just been recommending to me; and that if I was not very easy and happy in the world, it must be my mere fate or fault that must hinder it; and that he should have nothing to answer for, having thus discharged his duty in warning me against measures which he knew would be to my hurt; in a word, that as he would do very kind things for me if I would stay and settle at home as he directed, so he would not have so much hand in my misfortunes as to give me any encouragement to go away; and to close all, he told me I had my elder brother for an example, to whom he had used the same earnest persuasions to keep him from going into the Low Country wars, but could not prevail, his young desires prompting him to run into the army, where he was killed; and though he said he would not cease to pray for me, yet he would venture to say to me, that if I did take this foolish step, God would not bless me, and I should have leisure hereafter to reflect upon having neglected his counsel when there might be none to assist in my recovery.
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