{"product_id":"robinson-crusoe-daniel-defoe-9780393964523","title":"Robinson Crusoe: A Norton Critical Edition","description":"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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \"Contexts\" helps the reader understand the novel's historical and religious significance. Included are four contemporary accounts of marooned men, Defoe's autobiographical passages on the novel's allegorical foundation, and aspects of the Puritan emblematic tradition essential for understanding the novel's religious aspects.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \"Eighteenth-and Nineteenth-Century Opinions\" is a comprehensive study of early estimations by prominent literary and political figures, including Alexander Pope, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Samuel Johnson, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, William Wordsworth, Edgar Allen Poe, Thomas Babington Macaulay, Charles Dickens, Karl Marx, and John Stuart Mill.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \"Twentieth-Century Criticism\" is a collection of fourteen essays (five of them new to the Second Edition) that presents a variety of perspectives on \u003cem\u003eRobinson Crusoe\u003c\/em\u003e by Virginia Woolf, Ian Watt, Eric Berne, Maximillian E. Novak, Frank Budgen, James Joyce, George A. Starr, J. Paul Hunter, James Sutherland, John J. Richetti, Leopold Damrosch, Jr., John Bender, Michael McKeon, and Carol Houlihan Flynn.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e A Chronology of Defoe's life and work and an updated Selected Bibliography are also included.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Daniel Defoe\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0393964523\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780393964523\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e W. W. Norton \u0026amp; Company\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 12\/17\/1993\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 448\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.02lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.36h x 5.17w x 1.07d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAccelerated Reader:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReading Level:\u003c\/b\u003e 12.3\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePoint Value:\u003c\/b\u003e 27\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eInterest Level:\u003c\/b\u003e Upper Grade\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eQuiz #\/Name: \u003c\/b\u003e520 \/ Robinson Crusoe\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Daniel Defoe","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43995533312255,"sku":"9780393964523","price":23.75,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_dee09e81-629e-4195-87ec-6e53d42dbafa.jpg?v=1683336353","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/robinson-crusoe-daniel-defoe-9780393964523","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}