Robinson Crusoe (Wordsworth Classics)

With an Introduction and Notes by Doreen Roberts, Rutherford College, University of Kent at Canterbury.

From its first publication in 1719, Robinson Crusoe has been printed in over 700 editions. It has inspired almost every conceivable kind of imitation and variation, and has been the subject of:

• Plays
• Opera
• Cartoons
• Computer games

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.

Praised by eminent figures such as Coleridge, Rousseau, and Wordsworth, this perennially popular book was even cited by Karl Marx in Das Kapital to illustrate economic theory. 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.