Daniel Defoe , born Daniel Foe, was an English writer, journalist, and pamphleteer, who gained enduring fame for his novel Robinson Crusoe. Defoe is notable for being one of the earliest proponents of the novel, as he helped to popularize the form in Brit...
A Journal of the Plague Year is a novel by Daniel Defoe, first published in March 1722.The novel is a fictionalized account of one manâs experiences of the year 1665, in which the Great Plague struck the city of London. The book is told...
The story is widely perceived to have been influenced by the life of Alexander Selkirk, a Scottish castaway who lived for four years on the Pacific island called "Más a Tierra" (in 1966 its name was changed to Robinson Crusoe Island),...
The Fortunes and Misfortunes of the Famous Moll Flanders (commonly known as simply "Moll Flanders") is a novel written by Daniel Defoe in 1722.Defoe wrote this after his work as a journalist and pamphleteer. By 1722, Defoe had become recognized...
Volume four of the Childrenâs Treasure Book containing Daniel Defoeâs classic novel Robinson Crusoe. The book is illustrated in colour and black and white by F. N. J. Moody and others. Pook Press celebrates the great...
Volume four of the Childrenâs Treasure Book containing Daniel Defoeâs classic novel Robinson Crusoe. The book is illustrated in colour and black and white by F. N. J. Moody and others. Pook Press celebrates the great...
When John Churchill, Duke of Marlborough, rode among his 'men' in the campaigns that immortalised him as one of Britain's most accomplished military commanders, particularly in the War of Spanish Succession, little could he have imagined that...
The supposed autobiography of its heroine, Moll Flanders tells the astonishing story of a woman on the make, using fair means and foul to survive in eighteenth-century London.
Robinson Crusoe is at sea when there is a great storm. His ship goes down, and his friends die. The sea throws Crusoe onto a beach. He is on an island. But which island? Are there other people on it? And are they friendly? What will Crusoe do now?
Robinson Crusoe runs away from home to join the navy. After a series of adventures at sea, he is shipwrecked in a devastating storm, and finds himself alone on a remote desert island. He remains there many years, building a life for himself in solitude,...
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 olde...
Reproduction of 1727 second edition. History of the Devil, as well ancient as modern: in two parts. Part I. Containing a state of the devilâs circumstances, and the various turns of his affairs, from his expulsion out of Heaven, to the...
This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as...