The Life and Strange Surprizing Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, of York, Mariner: Who lived eight and twenty Years all alone in an un-inhabited Island on the Coast of America, near the Mouth of the Great River of Oroonoque; Having been cast on Shore by Shipwreck, where-in all the Men perished but himself. With An Account of how he was at last strangely deliver'd by Pyrates. Written by Himself

1719 [Defoe, Daniel] (1660-1731). The Life and Strange Surprizing Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, of York, Mariner: Who lived eight and twenty Years all alone in an un-inhabited Island on the Coast of America, near the Mouth of the Great River of Oroonoque; Having been cast on Shore by Shipwreck, where-in all the Men perished but himself. With An Account of how he was at last strangely deliver’d by Pyrates. Written by Himself. London: Ptd. for W. Taylor. Rpt. in Popular Romances: Consisting of Imaginary Voyages and Travels. Containing Gulliver’s Travels, Journey to the World Under Ground, The Life and Adventure of Peter Wilkins, The Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, and The History of Automathes. To Which is Prefixed An Introductory Dissertation by Henry Weber, Esq. (Edinburgh, Scot.: Ptd. by James Ballantyne and Co., 1812), 349-582 [Probably the first anthology of utopias]; rpt. with illustrations by Edward A. Wilson and an “Introduction” (iii-xiv) by Ford Madox Ford. New York: Limited Editions Club, 1930; ed. Michael Shinagel. 2^nd ed. New York: W.W. Norton, 1994; in The Novels of Daniel Defoe. Volume 1: The Life and Strange Surprizing Adventures of Robinson Crusoe. Ed. W.K. Owens. London: Pickering & Chatto, 2008, with an “Introduction” by Owens (15-51), “Explanatory Notes” (287-324) and “Textual Notes” (325-28); and a critical edition as The Stoke Newington Edition. Ed. Maximillian E. Novak, Irving N. Rothman, and Manuel Schonhorn (Lewisburg, PA: Bucknell University Press, 2020, with a list of Illustrations that are taken from many different editions (ix-x), an Introduction by the editors (xiii-xlviii), footnotes throughout the text, “Notifications of Books Printed and Sold” (253-260), “Bibliographic Descriptions” (261-289), “Variants” (291-357), “Works Consulted” (359-360), a “Selected Bibliography” (361-365), and an Index (369-379). An interesting edition for children is Robinson Crusoe In Words of One Syllable. Illus. Philadelphia, PA: Henry Altemus, 1900. For some publishing history, see Robert W. Lovett assisted by Charles W. Lovett, Robinson Crusoe: A Bibliographical Checklist of Editions (1719-1979). Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1991. Films directed by Luis Buñuel (1954) and “Crusoe” directed by Caleb Deschanel (1988) and many others. L, MH, NNU, PSt

This work gave rise to a whole sub-genre of works dealing with a castaway on an isolated island, the most famous of which is The Swiss Family Robinson (1812-1827) by Johann [Rudolf] Wyss (1781-1830) that appeared in hundreds of versions. Possible to treat it and the sub-genre as eutopias of solitude. See also 1719 Defoe. The Farther Adventures of Robinson Crusoe which is much more clearly a utopia in that more people are involved. A third volume was published, Serious Reflections During the Life and Surprising Adventures of Robinson Crusoe: With His Vision of the Angelick World. Written by himself. London: Printed for W. Taylor, 1720. Rpt. without the “Vision of the Angelick World.” In Modern British Utopias 1700-1850. Ed. Gregory Claeys. (London: Pickering & Chatto, 1997), 1: 113-226, 266; and with the “Vision of the Angelick World” as Serious Reflections During the Life and Surprising Adventures of Robinson Crusoe: With His Vision of the Angelick World. Ed. George A. Aitkin. Illus. J.B. Yeats. London: J.M. Dent, 1895; rpt. New York: AMS Press, 1974; in The Novels of Daniel Defoe. Volume 3: Serious Reflections During the Life and Surprising Adventures of Robinson Crusoe (1720). Ed. G.A. Starr. London: Pickering & Chatto, 2008, with an “Introduction” by Starr (1-47); and a critical edition as The Stoke Newington Edition. Ed. Maximillian E. Novak, Irving N. Rothman, and Manuel Schonhorn (Lewisburg, PA: Bucknell University Press, 2022, with a list of Illustrations (xi), an Introduction by the editors (xv-xxxvi), footnotes throughout the text, “Notifications of Books Printed and Sold” (335-336), “Bibliographic Descriptions” (337-349), a “List of Editorial Emendations” (351-353), a “Selected Bibliography” (355-358), and an Index (361-394). It is not a utopia, but Defoe says it lays out the moral basis of the first two volumes. A related work is J[ohn] M[axwell] Coetzee (b. 1940), Foe. London: Secker & Warburg, 1986.