笛福英文介绍

Life Experiences
(main things)ቤተ መጻሕፍቲ ባይዱ
1692 he became bankrupt, within 4years, he was doing well as the manager of the tile factory. 1701, The Trueborn Englishman –A Satire his best – known pamphlet 1703 he was arrested and pilloried(处以枷刑） 1704 he found The Review and carried it to 1713 1719 published Robinson Crusoe 1731 died
Four facts
• A jack-of-all-trades: Soldier, merchant, economist, politician, publicist, writer, as well as novelist. • A journalist and a pamphleteer: With a reporter’s eye for the picturesque and a newspaperman's instinct for “making a good story” • A radical nonconformist in religion(不信奉英国国教 的新教教徒): His puritan zeal for reform marks all this work account for the moralizing to be found everywhere. • A prisoner: His prison life and experience as a spy
Daniel Defoe
Abigail
The father of— the English novel (1660 1731)
English novelist, pamphleteer and journalist, whose work reflects his diverse experiences in many countries and in many walks of life. Besides being a brilliant journalist, novelist, and social thinker, Defoe was a prolific author, producing more than 500 books, pamphlets and tracts.
Robinson Crusoe
(1719) Significance: •the first and most famous novel •The book which makes him immortal •Father of English novel •Defoe gained enduring fame for this novel
Daniel Defoe
Life Experiences
(main things)
1660 born in London (son of a butcher) he received a good education in one of the best Dissenting school, but he gave up the idea of becoming a preacher. 1678-1683 traveled in Spain, Italy, France and German as a merchant. 1688 joined William’s army and took great interest in the establishment of the new government.
Memorial to Daniel Defoe
Bunhill Fields, City Road, London
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Other novels
• Captain Singleton (1720) 辛格顿船长 • Journal of the Plague Year (1722)大疫年日
记
• Captain Jack (1722)杰克船长 • Moll Flanders (1722) 摩尔 弗兰德 • Roxana (1724) 罗克珊娜