Adventure Fiction Writers

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self-reliance and hard work. To work, to economize and to accumulate wealth constituted the meaning of their life. This aspect of social life is best found in the realistic novels of the country. The 18th century England is also known as the Age of Enlightenment or the Age of Reason. The purpose of the Enlightenment Movement was to enlighten the whole world with the light of modern philosophical and artistic ideas. The enlighteners celebrated reason or rationality, equality and science, and advocated universal education.

Different from the former times, the mid-century was predominated by a newly rising literary form—the modern English novel, which gives a realistic presentation of life of the common English people. This phenomenon in the history of the development of English literature in the 18th century is a natural product of the Industrial Revolution and a symbol of the growing importance and strength of the English middle class. Among the pioneers were Daniel Defoe, Samuel ...

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mostly vernacular. There is nothing artificial in his language: it is common English at its best. The story of Robinson Crusoe is well-known throughout the world. It tells of how Robinson Crusoe, an English mariner, having shipwrecked on an island, managed to struggle for live for 28 years there and rescued a black man, whom he named Friday, from the cannibals (person who eats human flesh). Later, Robinson got hold of a ship and sailed home. The book’s “realistic” touch and ingenuity(originality) aroused great interest from the readers both in England and abroad.

The story was based on the life of Alexander Selkirk, who was put ashore on an uninhabitated island and spent 5 ...

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