'the work that scholars have long awaited ... [Furbank and Owens] have surely given us a new foundation for any discussion of the canon (and therefore of Defoe's life too). Now we can start arguing.' Times Literary Supplement

• Acknowledgements, Abbreviations, Introduction, Library symbols, Critical bibliography, Appendices, General index, Defoe title index

'the work that scholars have long awaited ... [Furbank and Owens] have surely given us a new foundation for any discussion of the canon (and therefore of Defoe's life too). Now we can start arguing.' Times Literary Supplement

• Acknowledgements, Abbreviations, Introduction, Library symbols, Critical bibliography, Appendices, General index, Defoe title index