Daniel Defoe

As Moll Flanders rises from the infamous Newgate Prison to fame, wealth, and respectability, Moll comes to embody all the excess and vitality of an era.

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...

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...

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....

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...

Moll Flanders raconte l'histoire d'une jeune femme née et abandonnée dans la prison de Newgate, une prison célèbre de Londres au XVIIIe siècle. Elle est forcée de se débrouiller seule pour survivre. Pour y parvenir, elle se mariera cinq fois, dans le but d'acquérir à chaque mariage la sécurité économique qui lui permettra de s'installer dans la colonie britannique de Virginie, en Amérique. Par un malheureux hasard, elle découvre qu'elle...

This novel is a fictionalized account of one man's experiences of the year 1665, in which the Great Plague struck the city of London. Although it purports to have been written only a few years after the event, it actually was written in the years just prior to the book's first publication in March 1722. Defoe was only five years old in 1665, and the book itself was published under the initials 'H. F.' The novel probably was based on the journals of...

Set sail for adventure! "As it is usual for great persons, whose lives have been remarkable, and whose actions deserve recording to posterity, to insist much upon their originals, give full accounts of their families, and the histories of their ancestors, so, that I may be methodical, I shall do the same, though I can look but a very little way into my pedigree, as you will see presently." The style of 'Captain Singleton,' like that of 'Robinson Crusoe,'...

Seit Daniel Defoe, so vermutet man, im Mittelmeer selbst in die Gefangenschaft von Piraten geriet, ließ ihn die Welt der Seeräuber nicht mehr los. Er besuchte und interviewte sie in den Gefängnissen, verfolgte ihre Prozesse und recherchierte fasziniert ein Leben lang ihre geheimnisvolle Welt. In diesem Roman lässt er Bob Singleton sein abenteuerliches Leben selbst erzählen: In frühester Kindheit von einer Zigeunerin entführt, kommt er als Elfjähriger...

"Robinson Crusoe" is a novel by Daniel Defoe, first published in 1719. A fictional autobiography, the first edition purported to be the work of the titular protagonist Robinson Crusoe and led its early readers to believe the book to be a real travelogue of Crueso's 28 years spent marooned on a remote tropical island near Venezuela, where he came across cannibals, captives, and mutineers before finally being rescued. The novel was well received when...