With its fast-moving narrative and resourceful, sympathetic hero, Robinson Crusoe is a book of universal appeal. When his ship capsizes in a violent storm, Robinson rescues himself as the sole survivor on an apparently uninhabited island. With the simples...
On Robinson Crusoes first seafaring voyage, his ship sinks in a violent storm. On his second voyage he is enslaved by pirates. When Crusoe braves the ocean after several years in Brazil, Providence leaves him as the sole survivor of a shipwreck on a deser...
Robinson Crusoe is a novel by Daniel Defoe, first published on 25 April 1719. This first edition credited the works fictional protagonist Robinson Crusoe as its author, leading many readers to believe he was a real person and the book a travelogue of true...
The Farther Adventures of Robinson Crusoe (now more commonly rendered as "The Further adventures of Robinson Crusoe") is a novel by Daniel Defoe, first published in 1719. Just as in its significantly more popular predecessor, Robinson Crusoe...
A Journal of the Plague Year is a book by Daniel Defoe, first published in March 1722. It is an account of one mans 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,...
A General History of the Robberies and Murders of the most notorious Pyrates is a 1724 book published in Britain containing biographies of contemporary pirates, which was influential in shaping popular conceptions of pirates. Its author uses the name Capt...
In 1665 a resurgence of the bubonic plague swept through London, claiming over 97,000 lives. Daniel Defoe was just five at the time but later called on his memories, as well as his writing skills, to create a fictionalized chronicle of the epidemic and...
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A nice illustrated edition of this classic to commemorate the 300th anniversary of its publication. This book is very relavant in the face of the 2020 world-wide pandemic. Our version has all the original text and 18 illustrations and maps.