Thomas Keymer has edited Richardson's Pamela and Fielding's Joseph Andrews and Shamela for OWC, and Tom Jones for Penguin. His books include Sterne, the Moderns, and the Novel (OUP, 2002) and The Cambridge Companion to English Literature 1740-1830 (2004), co-edited with Jon Mee.

• Acknowledgements


• Introduction


• Note on the Text


• Select Bibliography


• A Chronology of Daniel Defoe


• A Map of the World


• The Life and Strange Surprizing of Robinson Crusoe, of York, Mariner


• Appendix I: Frontispiece and Preface to Serious Reflections During the Surprising Adventures of Robinson Crusoe (1720)


• Appendix 2: A Chronology of Robinson Crusoe


• Textual Notes


• Explanatory Notes


• Glossary

This new edition of Defoe's masterpiece includes a lively introduction by Tom Keymer, full notes and useful appendices, including a chronology of the action of the story and Defoe's most sustained commentary on it.