'a Casement violently opened just over my Head, and a Woman gave three frightful Skreetches, and then cry'd, Oh! Death, Death, Death!' Purporting to be an eye-witness account, the Journal of the Plague Year is a record of the devastation wrought by the Great Plague of 1665 on the city of London. Defoe's fictional narrator, known only as 'H. F.', recounts in vivid detail the progress of the disease and the desperate attempts to contain it. He catalogues the rising death toll and the transformation of the city as its citizens flee and those who remain live in fear and despair. Above all it is the stories of appalling human suffering and grief that give Defoe's extraordinary fiction its compelling historical veracity. This revised edition includes comprehensive notes, a complete topographical index, and a new introduction to the greatest work of plague literature. ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features, including expert introductions by leading authorities, helpful notes to clarify the text, up-to-date bibliographies for further study, and much more.

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This meticulously edited and illustrated Daniel Defoe collection includes:_x000D_ Novels:_x000D_ "Robinson Crusoe" – Defoe's most famous novel tells the story of a man's shipwreck on a desert island for thirty years and his subsequent adventures._x000D_ "Captain Singleton" – an adventure story that covers a traversal of Africa and taps into the contemporary fascination with piracy._x000D_ "Colonel Jack" – follows an orphaned boy from a life of poverty and crime to colonial prosperity, military imbroglios, and religious conversion, driven by a tricky notion of becoming a "gentleman."_x000D_ "Moll Flanders" – tells the story of the fall and eventual redemption of a lone woman in 17th-century England. _x000D_ "Memoirs of a Cavalier" – is set during the Thirty Years' War and the English Civil War. It is presented as a military journal of the Wars in Germany and England._x000D_ "A Journal of the Plague Year" – This biographical novel is an account of one man's experiences of the year 1665, in which the Great Plague struck the city of London._x000D_ "Roxana: The Fortunate Mistress" – The novel follows the adventures of a young woman from wealth, to prostitution, to freedom._x000D_ "The Farther Adventures of Robinson Crusoe" – The sequel to "Robinson" describes how Crusoe traveled back in Bedford._x000D_ Criticism:_x000D_ Robinson Crusoe by Arthur Quiller-Couch_x000D_ Robinson Crusoe by W. P. Trent_x000D_ Biographies:_x000D_ The Life of Daniel De Foe by George Chalmers_x000D_ Daniel Defoe by William Minto_x000D_ The Earlier Life of Daniel Defoe by Henry Morley_x000D_ Daniel Defoe (1660-1731), was an English writer, journalist, and spy, most famous for his novel Robinson Crusoe.

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. The Novels ROBINSON CRUSOE THE FARTHER ADVENTURES OF ROBINSON CRUSOE CAPTAIN SINGLETON JOURNAL OF THE PLAGUE YEAR COLONEL JACK MOLL FLANDERS ROXANA The Shorter Fiction THE CONSOLIDATOR A TRUE RELATION OF THE APPARITION OF ONE MRS. VEAL ATLANTIS MAJOR A SHORT NARRATIVE OF HIS GRACE JOHN, D. OF MARLBOROGH THE KING OF PIRATES DICKORY CRONKE MEMOIRS OF A CAVALIER THE MEMOIRS OF MAJOR ALEXANDER RAMKINS THE HISTORY OF THE LIFE AND ADVENTURES OF MR. DUNCAN CAMPBELL THE PIRATE GOW THE HISTORY OF THE REMARKABLE LIFE OF JOHN SHEPPARD THE MILITARY MEMOIRS OF CAPTAIN GEORGE CARLETON THE HISTORY OF THE PYRATES The Poetry THE TRUE-BORN ENGLISHMAN HYMN TO THE PILLORY The Travel Writing A TOUR THRO’ THE WHOLE ISLAND OF GREAT BRITAIN