作者丹尼尔笛福于1660年出生于英国，是英国启蒙时期现实主义小说的奠基人，被誉为"英国和欧洲小说之父"。本书是一部具有传奇色彩的回忆录式冒险小说。小说问世之后，立即风靡全球，历久不衰，成为家喻户晓的一部世界名著，该书被誉为英国文学史上的第一部长篇小说。本书运用自述的方式，讲述了主人公在孤岛上生活二十八年的传奇故事。Daniel Defoe, the author, was born in England in 1660 and is one of the founders of realistic novel during the Period of Enlightenment of England and honored as "Father of English and European Novels". This book is a legendary adventure fiction in the style of memoirs. After the publication, this novel immediately swept the world and has continued being popular and become a widely known world's great book. This book is praised as the first full-length novel in history of British literature. It tells a legend that the protagonist has lived on a lonely island for twenty-eight years in a way of narratives.