A three-volume set of the definitive Stoke Newington Editions of
Robinson Crusoe. The novels and essays with introductions, line
notes, and full bibliographical notes. Includes: The Life and
Strange Surprizing Adventures of Robinson Crusoe,The Farther
Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, and Serious Reflections During the
Life and Surprising Adventures of Robinson Crusoe with his Vision
of the Angelick World. Robinson Crusoe, an adventure tale that
fascinated such thinkers as Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Karl Marx,
Virginia Woolf, and J. M. Coetzee, has been an international
best-seller for three hundred years. An adventure tale involving
cannibals, pirates, and shipwrecks, it embodies economic, social,
political, and philosophical themes that continue to be relevant
today. Moreover, the notion of isolation on a deserted island and a
fascination with survival continue to be central to countless
popular cinema and television programs. This edition of the novel
with its introduction, line notes, and full bibliographical notes
provides a uniquely scholarly presentation of the novel. There has
been no other edition like it. Defoe’s The Farther Adventures of
Robinson Crusoe was almost always published together with The Life
and Strange Surprizing Adventures of Robinson Crusoe. Only after
1950 was the first volume printed alone—a shorter work for some
classes. But in addition to fulfilling the promise of the first
volume, The Farther Adventures is an exciting adventure novel by
itself. Crusoe returns to his island to learn about his colony, and
then travels to Madagascar, India, and China before returning to
England after some exciting encounters. Complete with an
introduction, line notes, and full bibliographical notes, this is
an edition like no other. Serious Reflections During the Life and
Surprising Adventures of Robinson Crusoe with his Vision of the
Angelick World, first published in 1720 and considered a sequel to
The Farther Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, is a collection of
essays written in the voice of the Crusoe character. Expressing
Defoe’s thoughts about many moral questions of the day, the
narrator takes up isolation, poverty, religious liberty, and
epistemology. Defoe also used this volume to revive his interest in
poetry, not the satiric poetry of the early eighteenth century, but
the more inspirational verse that appeared in some of his later
works. Serious Reflections also includes an imaginative flight in
which Crusoe wanders among the planets, a return to the moon voyage
impulse of Defoe’s 1705 work The Consolidator. Illuminating the
ideas and philosophy of this most influential of English novelists,
it is invaluable for any student of the period.
General
| Imprint: |
Bucknell University Press,U.S.
|
| Country of origin: |
United States |
| Release date: |
April 2022 |
| First published: |
2021 |
| Authors: |
Daniel Defoe
|
| Editors: |
Maximillian E Novak
• Irving N. Rothman
• Manuel Schonhorn
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| Dimensions: |
234 x 155mm (L x W) |
| Format: |
Hardcover
|
| Pages: |
1469 |
| Edition: |
Multivolume set |
| ISBN-13: |
978-1-68448-381-5 |
| Categories: |
Books
|
| LSN: |
1-68448-381-6 |
| Barcode: |
9781684483815 |
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