Даниэль Дефо. Жизнь и творчество. Презентация.
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A lot of people all over the world like reading adventure stories. So do I. My favourite adventure book is “The Life and Strange Surprising Adventures of Robinson Crusoe” by Daniel Defoe.

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Daniel Defoe was born in London, his father, a butcher, was wealthy enough to give his son a good education. Daniel was self-reliant, industrious and responsible. He was a brilliant journalist and in many ways the father of modern English periodicals. He was also a founder of the realistic novel

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Books about voyages and new discoveries were very popular in the first quater of the 18’th century and many stories of that kind had been written. But Defoe was busy with politics and he didn’t think of trying his hand at it.

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But one story in “Steel magazine” attracted his attention. It was about a Scottish sailor, who lived quite alone 4 years and 4 month on a desert island.

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Defoe’s hero, Robinson Crusoe spend 26 years on a desert island. The story was based on real adventures of a sailor called Alexander Selkirk, but the book contains a lot of incidents from the writer’s imagination.

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The book was published in 1719 and became very popular, because Defoe made the story very realistic and everyone believed it. Daniel Defoe wrote many books, but for “Robinson Crusoe” he is called “the father of English prose”

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The novel was a praising to human labour and the triumph of the man over nature. Labour and fortitude helped Robinson to overcome the difficulties. The very process of hard work gives him satisfaction.

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Robinson’s most characteristic trait is his optimism. His guiding principal in life was: “Never said die” and “In trouble to be troubles is to have your trouble double.” I think, the book is worth reading, it is very useful for all of us, children and grown-ups.

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Besides “Robinson Crusoe”, Defoe wrote some more novels which were popular during his lifetime, but we do not hear much about them now. They are: -“The Life of Captain Singleton”, -“The Fortunes and Misfortunes of Moll Flanders”, -“The History of Colonel Jack,”’ -“A History of Lady Roxana”.

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“Robinson Crusoe” still remained his best and the most famous novel. People in different countries of the world have been reading it for hundreds of years and enjoy that reading