{"product_id":"complete-adventures-of-robinson-crusoe-3-vol-set","title":"Complete Adventures of Robinson Crusoe (3 Vol Set)","description":"\u003cp\u003eA three-volume set of the definitive Stoke Newington Editions of \u003ci\u003eRobinson Crusoe\u003c\/i\u003e. The novels and essays with introductions, line notes, and full bibliographical notes. Includes: \u003ci\u003eThe Life and Strange Surprizing Adventures of Robinson Crusoe,\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Farther Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eSerious Reflections During the Life and Surprising Adventures of Robinson Crusoe with his Vision of the Angelick World. \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eRobinson Crusoe,\u003c\/i\u003e an adventure tale that fascinated such thinkers as Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Karl Marx, Virginia Woolf, and J. M. Coetzee, has been an international best-seller for three hundred years. An adventure tale involving cannibals, pirates, and shipwrecks, it embodies economic, social, political, and philosophical themes that continue to be relevant today. Moreover, the notion of isolation on a deserted island and a fascination with survival continue to be central to countless popular cinema and television programs. This edition of the novel with its introduction, line notes, and full bibliographical notes provides a uniquely scholarly presentation of the novel. There has been no other edition like it.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDefoe’s \u003ci\u003eThe\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003e Farther Adventures of Robinson Crusoe\u003c\/i\u003e was almost always published together with \u003ci\u003eThe Life and Strange Surprizing Adventures of Robinson Crusoe\u003c\/i\u003e. Only after 1950 was the first volume printed alone-a shorter work for some classes. But in addition to fulfilling the promise of the first volume, \u003ci\u003eThe Farther Adventures\u003c\/i\u003e is an exciting adventure novel by itself. Crusoe returns to his island to learn about his colony, and then travels to Madagascar, India, and China before returning to England after some exciting encounters. Complete with an introduction, line notes, and full bibliographical notes, this is an edition like no other.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eSerious Reflections During the Life and Surprising Adventures of Robinson Crusoe\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003e with his Vision of the \u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003eAngelick\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003e World\u003c\/i\u003e, first published in 1720 and considered a sequel to \u003ci\u003eThe Farther Adventures of Robinson Crusoe\u003c\/i\u003e, is a collection of essays written in the voice of the Crusoe character. Expressing Defoe’s thoughts about many moral questions of the day, the narrator takes up isolation, poverty, religious liberty, and epistemology. Defoe also used this volume to revive his interest in poetry, not the satiric poetry of the early eighteenth century, but the more inspirational verse that appeared in some of his later works. \u003ci\u003eSerious Reflections \u003c\/i\u003ealso includes an imaginative flight in which Crusoe wanders among the planets, a return to the moon voyage impulse of Defoe’s 1705 work \u003ci\u003eThe Consolidator\u003c\/i\u003e. Illuminating the ideas and philosophy of this most influential of English novelists, it is invaluable for any student of the period.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Bucknell University Press,U.S.","offers":[{"title":"Default Product","offer_id":57261136413016,"sku":"9781684483808","price":126.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0278\/1295\/4195\/files\/9781684483808.jpg?v=1778394646","url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/complete-adventures-of-robinson-crusoe-3-vol-set","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}