Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe

ISBN: 9781853260452

Wordsworth Editions (5 May 1992)

Soft Cover, 272 pages

With an Introduction and Notes by Doreen Roberts, Rutherford College, University of Kent at Canterbury.

From its first publication in 1719, Robinson Crusoe has been printed in over 700 editions. It has inspired almost every conceivable kind of imitation and variation, and been the subject of plays, opera, cartoons, and computer games. The character of Crusoe has entered the consciousness of each succeeding generation as readers add their own interpretation to the adventures so thrillingly 'recorded' by Defoe.

Praised by eminent figures such as Coleridge, Rousseau and Wordsworth, this perennially popular book was cited by Karl Marx in Das Kapital to illustrate economic theory. However it is readers of all ages ove