A key work in the development of the novel, this new edition offers a critically edited text.
The introduction looks at the circumstances out of which the novel grew, its strengths and weaknesses as fiction, its reception and influence and the social and cultural issues examined in the novel, including the position of women, the role of religion and providence, and the questionable relationship between crime and its punishments.
Comprehensive notes clarify meanings, allustions, and other references, and note changes between the later editions of the text.
Includes a glossary, and a note on money.
Maps of England, London, and the American colonies.
