《鲁滨逊漂流记》讲述了17世纪，一名英国水手鲁滨逊·克鲁索不安于中产阶级的那种平庸舒适的生活，多次出海经营。在一次去非洲贩运黑奴的途中海上遇难，飘落荒岛。他以不屈不挠的顽强意志，依靠个人的智慧和辛勤的劳动，谋食建屋，制器养畜，开荒耕种，克服种种困难，最后终于回到文明社会的故事。

With an Introduction and Notes by Doreen Roberts, Rutherford College, University of Kent at Canterbury From its first publication in 1719, Robinson Crusoe has been printed in over 700 editions. It has inspired almost every conceivable kind of imitation and variation, and been the subject of plays, opera, cartoons, and computer games. The character of Crusoe has entered the consciousness of each succeeding generation as readers add their own interpretation to the adventures so thrillingly 'recorded' by Defoe. Praised by eminent figures such as Coleridge, Rousseau and Wordsworth, this perennially popular book was cited by Karl Marx in Das Kapital to illustrate economic theory. However it is readers of all ages over the last 280 years who have given Robinson Crusoe its abiding position as a classic tale of adventure.