An Englishman named Robinson suffered a shipwreck and drifted to a desert island. On the desert island, he relied on his hard-working hands and perseverance to fight against all kinds of difficulties. Struggle. Later, Robinson encountered terrible cannibals on a desert island. The brave Robinson rescued a savage from the cannibals and named him "Friday". From then on, Robinson and Friday The two lived happily on the desert island. It was not until twenty-eight years later that Robinson took a merchant ship and returned to his hometown of England.

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"Robinson Crusoe" is a novel by the British writer Daniel Defoe. The book was first published on April 25, 1719.

The work mainly tells the story of the protagonist Robinson Crusoe, who was born in a middle-class family and aspired to travel around the world throughout his life. Once while sailing to Africa, he encountered a storm and drifted alone to an uninhabited desert island, where he began to live an isolated life. With his strong will and unremitting efforts, he survived on the desert island and returned to his hometown after 28 years, 2 months and 19 days.

This novel was created by Defoe inspired by a true story at that time. In September 1704, a Scottish sailor named Alexander Selkirk had an argument with the captain and was abandoned by the captain in the Atlantic Ocean. After living on a desert island for 4 years and 4 months, he was rescued by Captain Woods Rogers. Defoe took Selkirk's legendary story as a basis, poured his many years of maritime experience into the characters, and fully used his rich imagination for literary processing, making "Robinson" not only a popular character among primary and secondary schools at that time A heroic figure in the minds of the bourgeoisie, and became the first idealized emerging bourgeoisie in Western literature. Many years after its publication, the novel was translated into many languages ??and widely circulated around the world, and was adapted into movies and TV series many times.

Reference: Baidu Encyclopedia-Robinson Crusoe