With an Introduction and Notes by Doreen Roberts, Rutherford College, University of Kent at Canterbury.
However it is readers of all ages over the last 280 years who have given Robinson Crusoe its abiding position as a classic tale of adventure..
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.
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.
It has inspired almost every conceivable kind of imitation and variation, and been the subject of plays, opera, cartoons, and computer games.
From its first publication in 1719, Robinson Crusoe has been printed in over 700 editions.
With an Introduction and Notes by Doreen Roberts, Rutherford College, University of Kent at Canterbury
