Masterpiece: Robinson Crusoe
His language is smooth , easy, colloquial and most vernacular. Defoe glorifies human labor and the puritan fortitude. It refers the enterprising sprit of the middle class.
A. 主要作品
a. The first novel: Robinson Crusoe.
b. four other novels: Captain Singleton, Moll Flanders, Colonel Jack and Roxana.
c. The pseudo-factual account of Great Plague: A Journal the Plague Year.
B. 代表作
a. Robinson Crusoe, an adventure story very much in the spirit of the time, is universally considered his masterpiece.
b. Robinson is here a real hero: a typical eighteenth-century English middle-class man.
c. He is the very prototype of the empire builder, the pioneer colonist. In describing Robinson’s life on the island, Defoe glorifies human labor and the Puritan fortitude.
