This carefully crafted ebook: “Robinson Crusoe: The Complete Adventures (Unabridged - "The Life and Adventures of Robinson Crusoe" and "The Further Adventures of Robinson Crusoe" in one volume)”is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents.Set in the 17th century, Robinson Crusoe follows the eponymous Robinson Crusoe as he leaves home to make his fortune. After a series of misadventures in Africa, Crusoe is shipwrecked on a desert island for 2...

Widely regarded as the Father of the Novel, Daniel Defoe is a paramount literary figure, who deserves a place in all digital libraries. This comprehensive eBook offers readers the complete FICTIONAL works, with a wide range of non-fiction works too. (Current version: 1)Features:* concise introductions to the novels and other works* images of how the pamphlets first appeared, giving your EReader a taste of the original texts* the complete novels and shorter ficti...

HarperCollins is proud to present our range of timeless literary classics.‘My true name is so well known in the Records or Registers at Newgate, and in the Old Bailey, and there are some things of such consequence still depending there, relating to my particular conduct, that it is not to be expected I should set my name or the account of my family to this work.’Born into the seedy world of Newgate Prison and abandoned as a baby at six months old, Moll Flanders soon learns ...

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'Robinson Crusoe has a universal appeal, a story that goes right to the core of existence' Simon ArmitageDaniel Defoe's Robinson Crusoe**, regarded by many to be first novel in English, is also the original tale of a castaway struggling to survive on a remote desert island.**The sole survivor of a shipwreck, Robinson Crusoe is washed up on a desert island. In his journal he chronicles his daily battle to stay alive, as he ...

Young Robinson Crusoe has a burning ambition to be a sailor. Paying no attention to his parents’ warnings he runs away to sea to embark on a series of thrilling adventures: struggles with Barbary pirates, a shipwreck and the extraordinary meeting with Man Friday... Roy Marsden plays the older Robinson Crusoe looking back on a life of recklessness, daring and adventure – and the survival of twenty-eight years, two months and nineteen days on a desert island. Based on the real-life adventure...

The Complete History of the Pirates gathers four vivid books of maritime crime into a single illustrated volume, recounting the robberies, stratagems, trials, and violent ends of figures such as Blackbeard, Bartholomew Roberts, and Anne Bonny. Written in the brisk documentary prose of early eighteenth-century criminal biography, it mingles nautical detail, moral commentary, and sensational adventure. Its literary context lies between travel narrative, gallows literature, and the emerging E...

The story follows the titular character, Robinson Crusoe, who is a young Englishman with a thirst for adventure. Against the wishes of his parents, Crusoe sets out on a sea voyage that ends in disaster when his ship is wrecked by a storm. He becomes the sole survivor and finds himself stranded on a remote island in the Caribbean.Alone on the island, Crusoe must learn to survive and adapt to his surroundings. He constructs shelter, hunts for food, and cultivates crops. Over the years, he fa...

Bring history back to life through Jim Hodges’ historically accurate, exciting and edifying audio recordings.The year is 1659. You’ve been stranded on a desert island. How would you survive? Stay for 28 years, deal with cannibals, heartfelt spiritual awakenings, mutineers, goats, crops, and human visitations? One of the most widely published books in all history, Robinson Crusoe, is often credited as the beginning of realistic fiction as a literary genre. Before the end of its firs...

Finally The New Revised Edition is Available!The gripping tale of the Great Plague that brought Europe to its knees in the mid-1600s. Defoe's fictionalized account of life in plague-stricken 1665 London is a harrowing and suspenseful page-turner.

Part of the outstanding biographical series – edited by Richard Holmes – that recovers the great classical tradition of English biography. Every book is a biographical masterpiece, still thrilling to read and vividly alive.In this pioneering series, Richard Holmes, the world’s leading Romantic biographer, sets out to recover the great forgotten tradition of English biographical writing. ‘I have had no time for dusty tomes,’ writes Holmes, ‘I have looked for brevity, intelligence an...

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 become known as the Great Plague of London.