The Complete Adventures of Robinson Crusoe (3 vol set)
The Stoke Newington Editions
Daniel Defoe author Maximillian E Novak editor Irving N Rothman editor Manuel Schonhorn editor
Format:Hardback
Publisher:Bucknell University Press,U.S.
Published:22nd Apr '22
Currently unavailable, and unfortunately no date known when it will be back
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,...
"Bucknell University Press’ new three-volume set The Complete Adventures of Robinson Crusoe: The Stoke Newington Editions is a valuable gift for scholars and advanced students of Defoe and his narrative works. Edited by three distinguished Defoe scholars, Bucknell’s editions of Robinson Crusoe, The Farther Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, and Serious Reflections During the Life and Surprising Adventures of Robinson Crusoe are affordable as well as eloquently introduced and fully annotated for the scholar and the curious modern reader of classic English fiction." -- John Richetti * editor of The Cambridge Companion to 'Robinson Crusoe' *
"This full and definitive Stoke Newington Edition highlights the ongoing mystery of Robinson Crusoe—the scope, durability, intensity, fertility, and diversity of the novel’s impact from 1719 to the present moment. The Life and Strange Surprising Adventures of Robinson Crusoe continues to inspire 'further adventures'—for example in Ridley Scott’s 2015 film The Martian. But the novel also provides an iconic context for the intersectional, pluralist, interconnected inquiries, identities, and territories that are shaping our time. And this comprehensive edition both enables and grounds those inquiries. The editors’ Introduction is invaluable in setting out the core dimensions of the novel’s scope—from contemporary influences to historical fiction to philosophical, religious, and colonial themes—but also, ultimately, in evoking just this elemental mystery of Robinson Crusoe’s impact: 'just this feeling of the significance of ordinary life, ordinary things.'" -- Laura Brown * author of Fables of Modernity: Literature and Culture in the English Eighteenth Century *
"Bucknell University Press’ new three-volume set The Complete Adventures of Robinson Crusoe: The Stoke Newington Editions is a valuable gift for scholars and advanced students of Defoe and his narrative works. Edited by three distinguished Defoe scholars, Bucknell’s editions of Robinson Crusoe, The Farther Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, and Serious Reflections During the Life and Surprising Adventures of Robinson Crusoe are affordable as well as eloquently introduced and fully annotated for the scholar and the curious modern reader of classic English fiction." -- John Richetti * editor of The Cambridge Companion to 'Robinson Crusoe' *
"This full and definitive Stoke Newington Edition highlights the ongoing mystery of Robinson Crusoe—the scope, durability, intensity, fertility, and diversity of the novel’s impact from 1719 to the present moment. The Life and Strange Surprising Adventures of Robinson Crusoe continues to inspire 'further adventures'—for example in Ridley Scott’s 2015 film The Martian. But the novel also provides an iconic context for the intersectional, pluralist, interconnected inquiries, identities, and territories that are shaping our time. And this comprehensive edition both enables and grounds those inquiries. The editors’ Introduction is invaluable in setting out the core dimensions of the novel’s scope—from contemporary influences to historical fiction to philosophical, religious, and colonial themes—but also, ultimately, in evoking just this elemental mystery of Robinson Crusoe’s impact: 'just this feeling of the significance of ordinary life, ordinary things.'" -- Laura Brown * author of Fables of Modernity: Literature and Culture in the English Eighteenth Century *
ISBN: 9781684483815
Dimensions: unknown
Weight: 2155g
1469 pages
Multivolume set