Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe, A Norton Critical Edition Softcover Book

Title: Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe, A Norton Critical Edition Softcover Book.
Author: Daniel Defoe.
Norton Critical Edition Edited by Michael Shinagel.
Type: Non-Fiction.
Edition: Norton Critical Second Edition.
Publisher: W W Norton  & Company, a Norton Critical Edition, 1994, 1st Published 1975.
Year First Published: 1719, Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe.
Format: Softcover Book.
Printed By: Printed in USA.
Page Count: pages.
Width: 14cm
Height: 20cm
Thickness: 2cm
Info: 
Robinson Crusoe is a novel by Daniel Defoe, first published on 25 April 1719. The first edition credited the work's protagonist Robinson Crusoe as its author, leading many readers to believe he was a real person and the book a travelogue of true incidents.
Epistolary, confessional, and didactic in form, the book is presented as an autobiography of the title character (whose birth name is Robinson Kreutznaer)a castaway who spends 28 years on a remote tropical desert island near the coasts of Venezuela and Trinidad, encountering cannibals, captives, and mutineers, before ultimately being rescued. The story has been thought to be based on the life of Alexander Selkirk, a Scottish castaway who lived for four years on a Pacific island called "Más a Tierra", now part of Chile, which was renamed Robinson Crusoe Island in 1966.
Despite its simple narrative style, Robinson Crusoe was well received in the literary world and is often credited as marking the beginning of realistic fiction as a literary genre. It is generally seen as a contender for the first English novel. Before the end of 1719, the book had already run through four editions, and it has gone on to become one of the most widely published books in history, spawning so many imitations, not only in literature but also in film, television and radio, that its name is used to define a genre, the Robinsonade. Wikipedia.
The Second Edition of the Norton Critical Edition of Robinson Crusoe is based on the Shakespeare Head Press reprint of the first edition copy in the British Museum, with the "errata" listed by Defoes publisher, William Taylor, incorporated into the text.
Michael Shinagel has collated the reprint with all six authorized editions published by Taylor in 1719 to achieve a text that is faithful to Defoe's original edition.  Annotations assist the reader with obscure words and idioms, biblical references, and nautical terms.
Condition: Very Good, all pages and binding intact, no loose pages.
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