The Complete Adventures of Robinson Crusoe (3 Vol Set)

"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)