Defoe published the follow-up to his best-seller Robinson Crusoe just five months after the first book hit the streets, in a surprisingly modern marketing effort to cash in on the name recognition. Surprisingly modern, that is, given that both books were published in 1719, just one hundred years after Shakespeare and the King James Version of the Bible set the standard for the English language for the next 300 years.
The book starts with the statement about Crusoe's marriage in England. He bought a little farm in Bedford and had three children: two sons and one daughter. Our hero suffered a distemper and a desire to see "his island." He could talk of nothing else, and one can imagine that no one took his stories seriously, except his wife. She told, in tears, "I will go with you, but I won't leave you." But in the middle of this felicity, Providence unhinged him at once, with the loss of his wife...
In some ways more interesting than the original, the "further adventures" allows Defoe to set up some new scenarios: women and "savages" have been introduced into his paradise, giving him the opportunity to write about salvation and missionary zeal. Of course, since Defoe seemed to delight in contrarian views, he embodies the missionary zeal in the body of a French Catholic priest, in sharp contrast to his non-Conformist Protestantism. Defoe resolves the problem in strikingly modern terms pleasing to the true Biblical view.
Written in much the same style the original Robinson Crusoe.
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