139. (3.56) 593. Classic Literature. Fiction. HTML: Robinson Crusoe is the fictional autobiography of the title character. As a young man, Crusoe sets out from England on a disastrous sea voyage. His passion for seafaring remains undiminished and so he sets out again, only to be shipwrecked a third. Ann Marie Fallon. Robinson Crusoe is often cited as the first novel in the English language. But Defoe's novel can better be understood as part of an early tradition of world literature that Daniel Defoe and Robinson Crusoe Background. Daniel Defoe was born in 1660, in London, and was originally christened Daniel Foe, changing his name around the age of thirty-five to sound more aristocratic. Like his character Robinson Crusoe, Defoe was a third child. His mother and father, James and Mary Foe, were Presbyterian dissenters. Robinson Crusoe, as a young and impulsive wanderer, defied his parents and went to sea. He was involved in a series of violent storms at sea and was warned by the captain that he should not be a seafaring man. Ashamed to go home, Crusoe boarded another ship and returned from a successful trip to Africa. Taking off again, Crusoe met with bad Friday’s release becomes a new milestone for island life for Robinson Crusoe. The handsome young savage is drawn by Daniel Defoe in a somewhat idealized way – the author notes in him a courageous and pleasant face, honesty, hearty simplicity, sincerity, a feeling of deep gratitude for salvation from death. Friday is a true child of nature Robinson Crusoe 2 of 487 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 Kniha: Robinson Crusoe Autor: Daniel Defoe Deník přidal(a): Karolína Přidáno na: Studijni-svet.cz Život a zvláštní podivná dobrodružství Robinsona Crusoa, námořníka z Yorku Autor: Daniel Defoe Rok: 1719 Žánr: dobrodružný román Druh: epika Styl: podrobné vyprávění, fiktovní autobiografie Doba: 17.století Literární směr: Osvícenství Země: Anglie Tématika: Život Robinson Crusoe. Daniel Defoe, James Kelly. Oxford University Press, Aug 14, 2008 - Fiction - 384 pages. 'I made him know his Name should be Friday, which was the Day I sav'd his LifeI likewise taught him to say Master' Robinson Crusoe's seafaring adventures are abruptly ended when he is shipwrecked, the solitary survivor on a deserted island. Robinson Crusoe [a] ( / ˈkruːsoʊ /) is an English adventure novel by Daniel Defoe, first published on 25 April 1719. At the center of Robinson Crusoe is a tension between society and individuality. As the novel begins, Robinson breaks free of his family and the middle-class society in which they live in order to pursue his own life. If he were to stay at home, he would live a life already arranged for him by his father and by the constraints of English society. VcUtqk.