Daniel Defoe

Robinson Crusoe Daniel Defoe Reissue edition

Jacket Description/Back: Robinson Crusoe is one of the most famous literary characters in history, and his story has spawned hundreds of retellings. Inspired by the life of Alexander Selkirk, a sailor who lived for several years on a Pacific island, the novel tells the story of Crusoe's survival after shipwreck on an island, interaction with the mainland's native inhabitants, and eventual rescue. Read variously as economic fable, religious allegory, or imperialist fantasy, Crusoe has never lost its appeal as one of the most compelling adventure stories of all time. In addition to an introduction and helpful notes, this Broadview Edition includes a wide range of appendices that situate Defoe's 1719 novel amidst castaway narratives, economic treatises, reports of cannibalism, explorations of solitude, and Defoe's own writings on slavery and the African trade. A final appendix presents images of Crusoe's rescue of Friday from a dozen of the most significant illustrated editions of the novel published between 1719 and 1920. Review Quotes: "Evan Davis has done an excellent job of bringing together many of the strands of thought that Defoe put into The Life and Strange Surprizing Adventures of Robinson Crusoe--his interests in travel, economics, religion, and the experience of solitude--and putting them into an attractive format.... This will be a useful and indeed an exciting text for students at all levels."--Maximillian E. Novak, University of California at Los AngelesBiographical Note: Evan R. Davis is Elliott Associate Professor of English at Hampden-Sydney College, Hampden-Sydney, Virginia. Table of Contents: Acknowledgements Introduction Daniel Defoe: A Brief Chronology A Note on the Text Robinson Crusoe, modernized edition Appendix A: Preface and Publisher's Introduction to Serious Reflections of Robinson Crusoe (1720) Appendix B: From Charles Gildon, The Life and Strange Surprizing Adventures of Mr. D..... De F... (1719) Appendix C: Castaway Narratives From Ibn Tufayl, Hai Ebn Yokdhan (tr. 1708) Accounts of Alexander Selkirk Richard Steele, The Englishman, No. 26 (1713) From Penelope Aubin, The Strange Adventures of the Count de Vinevil and his Family (1721) From Leendert Hasenbosch, An Authentick Relation of the Many Hardships and Sufferings of a Dutch Sailor (1728) Appendix D: Uses of Solitude Richard Baxter, "Of Conversing with God in Solitude" (1664) From Mary, Lady Chudleigh, "Of Solitude" (1710) From Anne Finch, Countess of Winchilsea, "The Petition for an Absolute Retreat" (1713) Daniel Defoe, "Of Solitude" (1720) Alexander Pope, "Ode on Solitude" (1736) Edmund Burke, "Society and Solitude" (1757) From Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Emilius and Sophia (tr. 1762) William Cowper, "Verses Supposed to be Written by Alexander Selkirk" (1782) Charlotte Smith, Sonnet XLIV, "Written in the Church-yard at Middleton in Sussex" (1789) From Samuel Taylor Coleridge, "The Rime of the Ancyent Marinere" (1798) William Wordsworth, "Nutting" (1800) William Cowper, "The Castaway" (1803) Appendix E: Economic Contexts From John Locke, "Of Property" (1698) From Adam Smith, The Wealth of Nations (1776) From Karl Marx, Capital (tr. 1887) From Max Weber, The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism (tr. 1930) Appendix F: Defoe on Slavery and the African Trade From Reformation of Manners, A Satyr (1702) From An Essay upon the Trade to Africa (1711) From A Review of the State of the British Nation (1711, 1712) From Colonel Jack (1722) From A Plan of the English Commerce (1728) Appendix G: Cannibalism Michel de Montaigne, "Of Cannibals" (tr. 1711) From Cesar de Rochefort, The History of the Caribby-Islands (tr. 1666) William Dampier, "Of the Reports about Cannibals" (1703) From Daniel Defoe, Serious Reflections (1720) Appendix H: Illustrations of Friday's Rescue Anonymous (1720) Anonymous (1722) Clement Pierre Marillier (1787) Charles Ansell (1790) Thomas Stothard (1790) George Cruikshank (1831) J. J. Grandville (1840) Phiz (Hablot Knight Browne) (1846) Jules Fesquet (1877) Otis Turner (director) (1913) Bibliography and Works Cited Review Citations:

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Contributor Bio:  Defoe, Daniel Born in 1660 in London, England, DANIEL DEFOE led an interesting and complicated life. He once owned a haberdashery (or hat shop), served as an advisor to King William, became quite wealthy, lost his fortune, served several months in prison for religious and political dissent for his writings, and spent much of his later life avoiding debt collectors. However, in 1716, he published Robinson Crusoe, a literary masterpiece that proved immediately popular for its adventurous and creative storytelling. While he died penniless in 1731, Defoe's books are still read by people all over the world. Contributor Bio:  Wyeth, N C William Frederick "Buffalo Bill" Cody (February 26, 1846 - January 10, 1917) was an American soldier, bison hunter and showman. He was born in the Iowa Territory (now the U. S. state of Iowa), in Le Claire but lived several years in Canada before his family moved to the Kansas Territory. Buffalo Bill received the Medal of Honor in 1872 for service to the US Army as a scout. One of the most colorful figures of the American Old West, Buffalo Bill became famous for the shows he organized with cowboy themes, which he toured in Great Britain and Europe as well as the United States.