Daniel Defoe
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Imagine a plague so horrific, only forty percent of the population lived to tell the tale. Written as a first-person account of the world's most dangerous pandemic, the mysterious narrator bears witness to a society that has seemingly given up hope during terrifying times.
. From mounting death tolls, to horrific bodily ailments, contracting the Black Plague was considered a fate worse than death. Combining his own experiences within each of the...
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The Life and Adventures of Robinson Crusoe is a tale of one man's resilience and resourcefulness in the face of extraordinary challenges. The story begins with Robinson Crusoe's decision to defy his father's wishes and set out to sea. His adventurous spirit leads him through a series of misadventures, including being shipwrecked on a deserted island. Alone on the island, Crusoe must navigate the harsh realities of survival. He learns to secure food,...
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Daniel Defoe's faith-filled The Further Adventures of Robinson Crusoe finds Crusoe bored with his prosperity and consumed by an irresistible longing to return to the island he left many years before. Along with his trusty servant and companion, Friday, he embarks on a harrowing high-seas adventure that takes them to China, over the Russian steppes, and into Siberia. Readers will find themselves captivated by this sequel, which is every bit as engaging...
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He was a British merchant, manufacturer, insurer, and spy, but Daniel Defoe eventually found his true calling as a writer-and his masterful fiction has endeared him to readers all over the world. A prolific author who published over 500 novels, travel guides, pamphlets, and journals, he was best known for his 1719 adventure novel Robinson Crusoe. Soon after the enormous success of Robinson Crusoe, Defoe wrote this compelling account of high-seas drama...
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What a brilliant rant against female servants, footmen and shoe shiners. The maids come from the countryside and they immediately raise their wages, start wearing fancy silk dresses instead of wool. These even start affairs with the Master's apprentice, his son, or even the masters. This of course wrecks his marriage, family and even his estate at which point she dumps a bastard on him and leaves. All I can say is how horrible those poor rich men...
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Daniel Defoe's great talent as a writer was to speak in the voices of others. Such was the authenticity of this memoir of a 17th-century soldier of fortune that for over half a century it was considered to be genuine. The struggle of the narrator to turn his observations into facts and to make certain history out of his uncertain experiences combines with vivid descriptions of the battles of the Civil War to give the narrative its dramatic qualities....
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En 1651, Robinson Crusoé quitte York, en Angleterre, pour naviguer, contre la volonté de ses parents qui souhaitaient qu'il devienne avocat. Son navire est abordé par des pirates de Salé : Crusoé devient l'esclave d'un Maure. Mais il parvient à s'échapper sur un bateau portugais qui l'emmène au Brésil, o il devient le propriétaire d'une plantation. En 1659, alors qu'il a vingt-huit ans, il rejoint une expédition recherchant des esclaves...
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This classic eighteenth-century work on the Golden Age of Piracy includes stories of Black Bart, Calico Jack, Anne Bonny, and many others.
How did we come to picture pirates donning peg legs, wearing eye patches, and burying treasure? This book, dating back to 1724, features biographies of the notorious buccaneers of the Golden Age of Piracy, and the history, stories, and legends that surround them. Published under the name Capt. Charles Johnson,...
10) Roxana
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Beginning with an account of her first marriage to a man she describes as a "fool," Roxana tells the tale of her unusual life in a poignant first-person narrative. As her respect for her husband's intelligence and character decline, Roxana and her husband grow apart, and he eventually abandons her to fend for herself. As a result, Roxana forsakes her virtue and turns to a life of prostitution. At first she does this only to ensure her survival, but...
11) Robinson Crusoe
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Robinson Crusoe, la obra del autor Daniel Defoe. Cuando en Inglaterra se conoció la historia real de Alexander Selkirk, un marinero que fue abandonado en una isla desierta cerca de las costas de Chile y que vivió varios años en la soledad hasta ser rescatado, inspiró a Daniel Defoe a hacer otra de sus novelas basadas en hechos reales, aunque presentándolas como si fueran una descripción periodística de los sucesos. En el caso de Robinson Crusoe,...
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Es liegt wohl an der Grausigkeit des Stoffes, dass das Die Pest zu London (Journal of the Grand Plague of London.—London 1723), von Defoe lange nicht übersetzt wurde und erst 1925 in der deutschen Fassung erschien. Wer es mit seinen, bis in die kleinsten und unbedeutendsten Einzelheiten gehenden Schilderungen durchgelesen hat, dürfte einigermaßen erstaunt sein, zu hören, dass es von einem 61jährigen Manne geschrieben wurde, der zurzeit der...
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Defoe's "particular and diverting account of whatever is curious and worth observation" in his native country, told in a series of letters, was founded upon seventeen separate tours in the counties, and three larger tours through the whole country. He said he had "viewed the north part of England and the south part of Scotland five several times over," and he thought it worthwhile to note what he saw, because, "the fate of things gives a new face...
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(Excerpt): "A faithful and very surprising Account how Dickory Cronke, a Tinner's son, in the County of Cornwall, was born Dumb, and continued so for Fifty-eight years; and how, some days before he died, he came to his Speech; with Memoirs of his Life, and the Manner of his Death."
15) The Storm
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On the evening of 26th November 1703, a cyclone from the north Atlantic hammered into southern Britain at over seventy miles an hour, claiming the lives of over 8,000 people. Eyewitnesses reported seeing cows left stranded in the branches of trees and windmills ablaze from the friction of their whirling sails. For Defoe, bankrupt and just released from prison for seditious writings, the storm struck during one of his bleakest moments. But it also...
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Dieser im Jahre 1720 erschienene Roman beschreibt das Leben einer fiktiven Person-Bob Singleton. Der Seefahrer und Pirat erzählt über sein Privatleben und seine Abenteuer in der Mitte des 17. Jahrhunderts. Sein Leben war von Anfang an recht ungewöhnlich und abenteuerlich: Als Kind reicher Eltern wird er von einer Diebin entführt, an eine Bettlerin weitergegeben und dann an eine Zigeunerin für 12 Shilling verkauft. Doch das Leben hatte für ihn...
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A Journal of the Plague Year, written by a citizen who continued all the while in London by Daniel Defoe
A Journal of the Plague Year is a book by Daniel Defoe, first published in March 1722. It is an account of one man's experiences of the year 1665, in which the bubonic plague struck the city of London in what became known as the Great Plague of London, the last epidemic of plague in that city.
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Der Roman beschreibt in der Form einer Ich-Erzählung das Leben von Moll Flanders, einer fiktiven Figur, in der sich aber Teile von realen Persönlichkeiten (unter anderem der des Autors) wiederfinden. Moll Flanders wächst als Waisenkind auf und wird mit ihrer klugen, aber auch naiven Art zu einem beliebten Kind bei einigen wohlhabenden Familien. Als sie für das Waisenhaus zu alt wird, nimmt sie eine dieser Familien auf. Nach einigen Jahren verliebt...
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Moll, which she emphasizes, is not her birth name, though she never does reveal what it was, is, raised until she is teenager in America by a foster mother. She then gets a job as a household servant where she is, loved by both, of the families’ sons. The oldest convinces her to "act as if, they were, married" in bed, but then is unwilling to marry her, and pawns her off on his younger brother. She is then, widowed, and leaves her children behind,...