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Daniel Defoe

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Pulp! The Classics

One man's love of the sea leaves him stranded on a desert island with nothing but a few goats, a bible and a parrot for company. Will he ever escape? Will his new pal Friday learn to efficiently press a goatskin jerkin? Or will solitude send him totally barmy? Pulp! The Classics is a new imprint that gives the nation's favourite classic novels original retro covers in a pulp fiction style - with a dash of wry humour. Redesigned and reset, using the original unabridged text from some of the...

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Daniel Defoe

If ever the story of any private man's adventures in the world were worth making public, and were acceptable when published, the Editor of this account thinks this will be so. The wonders of this man's life exceed all that (he thinks) is to be found extant; the life of one man being scarce capable of a greater variety. The story is told with modesty, with seriousness, and with a religious application of events to the uses to which wise men always apply them, viz. to the instruction of othe...

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Daniel Defoe

Daniel Defoe is best known as the author of "Robinson Crusoe," published in 1719. However between 1724 and 1726 he published the three volume work, "A Tour Through the Whole Island of Great Britain." This is a superb and detailed account of what Great Britain was like on the eve of the industrial and agricultural revolutions, written in a matter-of-fact style that comes over as surprisingly modern.The three volumes are written in the form of 13 "letters," each describing a tour und...

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Daniel Defoe, Zoe Parsons

Daniel Defoe's "The Fortunes and Misfortunes of the Famous Moll Flanders" is a striking narrative that intricately chronicles the tumultuous life of its titular character, Moll Flanders. Written in a realistic prose style that marks Defoe's contribution to the early development of the English novel, this work explores themes of poverty, crime, and redemption in 18th-century England. The novel is structured as a first-person account, offering an unflinching glimpse into the struggles of a w...

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Daniel Defoe

Daniel Defoe's 'The History of the Pirates' is a gripping and detailed account of the ruthless world of pirates during the Golden Age of Piracy in the late 17th and early 18th centuries. Defoe's narrative style combines historical facts with vivid storytelling, providing readers with a comprehensive understanding of the brutal and adventurous lives of pirates. The book is written in a journalistic tone, reflecting Defoe's background as a journalist and pamphleteer, and is filled with rich ...

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Daniel Defoe

The Definitive Classic of Adventure, Survival, and Human ResilienceFirst published in 1719, Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe is one of the foundational works of English fiction and is sometimes described as the first English novel. Whether or not that claim is taken literally, its influence on the development of the modern novel is immense.Written as the fictional autobiography of its title character, the novel follows an English ca...

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Daniel Defoe

34 Complete Works of Daniel DefoeA Journal of the Plague YearA New Voyage Round the World by a Course Never Sailed BeforeA Short Narrative of the Life and Actions of His Grace John, D. of MarlboroghA True Relation of the Apparition of one Mrs. VealAn Appeal to Honour and Justice Though It Be of His Worst EnemiesAn Essay on ProjectsAn Humble Proposal to the People of EnglandAnd What if the Pretender should ComeAtalantis Major

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Daniel Defoe

HAVING taken more than ordinary Pains in collecting the Materials which compose the following History, we could not be satisfied with our selves, if any Thing were wanting to it, which might render it entirely satisfactory to the Publick: It is for this Reason we have subjoined to the Work, a short Abstract of the Laws now in Force against Pyrates, and made Choice of some particular Cases, (the most curious we could meet with) which have been heretofore tried, by which it will appear what ...

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Daniel Defoe

This eighteenth-century classic by the author of Robinson Crusoe recounts the adventures and many marriages of the infamous thief, lover, and mother.Here are recounted the fortunes and misfortunes of one known to London's criminal underground as Moll Flanders. Born in Newgate Prison, Moll's childhood ends when she is seduced by one foster brother, married to another, and widowed not long thereafter. She quickly learns to navigate a world where her beauty i...

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Daniel Defoe

The Life and Strange Surprising Adventures of Robinson Crusoe (of York, Mariner Who lived Eight and Twenty Years all alone in an un-inhabited Island on the Coast of America, near the Mouth of the Great River of Oroonoque; Having been cast on Shore by Shipwreck, where in all the Men perished but Himself. With An Account how he was at last as strangely deliver'd by Pirates) is a novel by Daniel Defoe, first published in 1719 and sometimes regarded as the first novel in English. The book is a...

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Daniel Defoe

A Brilliant Early Novel of Survival, Ambition, Crime, and RedemptionFirst published in 1722, at a time when criminal biographies and accounts of notorious lives enjoyed enormous popularity, Moll Flanders by Daniel Defoe is one of the landmarks of early English fiction. Told with the immediacy of a personal confession, the novel follows an unforgettable woman struggling against poverty, insecurity, and the severe limitations imposed upon he...

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Daniel Defoe

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Joe Phoenix

Robinson Crusoe is a novel by Daniel Defoe, first published on 25 April 1719. The first edition credited the work's protagonist Robinson Crusoe as its author, leading many readers to believe he was a real person and the book a travelogue of true incidents.Epistolary, confessional, and didactic in form, the book is presented as an autobiography of the title character (whose birth name is Robinson Kreutznaer)—a castaway who spends 28 years on a remote tropical desert island near Trini...