'I made him know his Name should be Friday, which was the Day I sav'd his Life...I likewise taught him to say Master'

Robinson Crusoe's seafaring adventures are abruptly ended when he is shipwrecked, the solitary survivor on a deserted island. He gradually creates a life for himself, building a house, cultivating the land, and making a companion from the native whose life he saves.

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.
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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

Daniel Defoe

Thomas Keymer has edited Richardson's Pamela and Fielding's Joseph Andrews and Shamela for OWC, and Tom Jones for Penguin. His books include Sterne, the Moderns, and the Novel (OUP, 2002) and The Cambridge Companion to English Literature 1740-1830 (2004), co-edited with Jon Mee.