Robinson Crusoe /
Daniel Defoe ; an authoritative text, backgrounds and sources, criticism, edited by Michael Shinagel
- 1st ed
- New York : Norton, [1975]
- x, 399 pages ; 22 cm
- A Norton critical edition .
- Norton critical edition .
Robinson Crusoe /ˌrɒbɪnsən ˈkruːsoʊ/ 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
Includes bibliographical references (pages 396-399)
The text of Robinson Crusoe -- Backgrounds and sources -- Eighteenth- and nineteenth-century options of Defoe and Robinson Crusoe -- Twentieth-century criticism of Robinson Crusoe