Robinson Crusoe

New Edition

Daniel Defoe
Edited by Thomas Keymer and Notes by James Kelly

Oxford World's Classics

New edition of Defoe's masterpiece, using the authoritative text, based with emendations on the first edition and incorporating new critical introduction by Thomas Keymer and the most substantial editorial apparatus of any comparable edition.
The introduction ranges widely across literary and historical contexts, from the religious to the post-colonial, with a lively examination of this classic text by a leading scholar.
Full notes including new material resulting from recent scholarship.
Up to date bibliography.
Textual notes and glossary.
Two interesting appendixes: a chronology of the action of the story and the preface to Defoe's second sequel (Serious Reflections...) published the year after the novel, and which throws up ways of reading the book as allegorized autobiography.

Robinson Crusoe

New Edition

Daniel Defoe
Edited by Thomas Keymer and Notes by James Kelly

Description

Daniel Defoe's enthralling story-telling and imaginatively detailed descriptions have ensured that his fiction masquerading as fact remains one of the most famous stories in English literature. On one level a simple adventure story, the novel also raises profound questions about moral and spiritual values, society, and man's abiding acquisitiveness. This new edition includes a scintillating Introduction and notes that illuminate the historical context.

About the Series: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the broadest spectrum of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features, including expert introductions by leading authorities, voluminous notes to clarify the text, up-to-date bibliographies for further study, and much more.

Robinson Crusoe

New Edition

Daniel Defoe
Edited by Thomas Keymer and Notes by James Kelly

Oxford World's Classics

Acknowledgements
Introduction
Note on the Text
Select Bibliography
A Chronology of Daniel Defoe
A Map of the World
The Life and Strange Surprizing of Robinson Crusoe, of York, Mariner
Appendix I: Frontispiece and Preface to Serious Reflections During the Surprising Adventures of Robinson Crusoe (1720)
Appendix 2: A Chronology of Robinson Crusoe
Textual Notes
Explanatory Notes
Glossary

Robinson Crusoe

New Edition

Daniel Defoe
Edited by Thomas Keymer and Notes by James Kelly

Oxford World's Classics

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Why Robinson Crusoe is really an urban tale

Robinson Crusoe (1719) was Daniel Defoe's first novel and remains his most famous: a powerful narrative of isolation and endurance that's sometimes compared to Faust, Don Quixote or Don Juan for its elemental, mythic quality.

Posted on April 25, 2019

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Wrecked on a desert island

When I waked it was broad day, the weather clear, and the storm abated, so that the sea did not rage and swell as before. But that which surprised me most was, that the ship was lifted off in the night from the sand where she lay by the swelling of the tide, and was driven up almost as far as the rock which I at first mentioned, where I had been so bruised by the wave dashing me against it.

Posted on February 1, 2014

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