The Life & Strange Surprising Adventures of Daniel Defoe

The Life & Strange Surprising Adventures of Daniel Defoe
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Total Pages : 472
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Synopsis The Life & Strange Surprising Adventures of Daniel Defoe by : Richard West

Daniel Defoe's life was packed with incident and drama. Born in the year of the Restoration of the Monarchy after the English Civil War, he remained a nonconformist throughout his life, actively rebelled against James II, travelled the country as a spy for King William and Queen Mary, worked in Scotland on active behalf of the historic Union of Scotland and England, helped launch the South Sea Company, was bankrupted frequently as a businessman, was imprisoned for libel and debt, and died a pauper.

Daniel Defoe

Daniel Defoe
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Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
Total Pages : 310
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ISBN-10 : 9780813161839
ISBN-13 : 0813161835
Rating : 4/5 (39 Downloads)

Synopsis Daniel Defoe by : Paula R. Backscheider

In this book, Paula Backscheider considers Daniel Defoe's entire canon as related, developing, and in close dynamic relationship to the literature of its time. In so doing, she revises our conception of the contexts of Defoe's work and reassesses his achievement and contribution as a writer. By restoring a literary context for modern criticism, Backscheider argues the intensity and integrity of Defoe's artistic ambitions, demonstrating that everything he wrote rests solidly upon extensive reading of books published in England, his understanding of the reading tastes of his contemporaries, and his engagement with the issues and events of his time. Defoe, the dedicated professional writer and innovator, emerges with a new wholeness, and certain of his novels assume new significance. Defoe's literary status continues to be debated and misunderstood. Even critical studies of the novel often begin with Richardson rather than Defoe. By moving from Defoe's poetry, pamphlets, and histories to the novels, Backscheider offers an argument for the thematic and stylistic coherency of his oeuvre and for a recognition of the dominant place he held in shaping the English novel. For example, Defoe deserves to be recognized as the true originator of the historical novel, for three of his fictions are deeply engaged with just those conceptual and technical issues common to all later historical fiction. And Roxana now appears as Defoe's deliberate attempt to enter the fastest growing market for fiction—that for women readers. What have been powerfully significant for the history of the novel, then, are the very characteristics of his writing that have been held against his literary stature: its contemporaneity, its mixed and untidy form, its formal realism, its concentration on the life of an individual, and its probing of the individual's psychological interaction with the empirical world, making that world representative even as it is referential. It is exactly these characteristics most original, prominent, and subsequently imitated in Defoe's fiction that define the form we call "novel."

Daniel Defoe

Daniel Defoe
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Total Pages : 780
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ISBN-10 : 0199261547
ISBN-13 : 9780199261543
Rating : 4/5 (47 Downloads)

Synopsis Daniel Defoe by : Maximillian E. Novak

Daniel Defoe led an exciting and indeed precarious life. A provocative pamphleteer and journalist, a spy and double agent, a revolutionary and a dreamer, he was variously hunted by mobs with murderous intent and treated as a celebrity by the most powerful leaders of the country. Imprisoned many times, pilloried and reviled by his enemies, through it all he managed to produce some of the most significant literature of the eighteenth century. Daniel Defoe: Master of Fictions is the first biography to view Defoe's complex life through the angle of vision that is most important to us as modern readers--his career as a writer. Maximillian Novak, a leading authority on Defoe, ranges from the writer's earliest collection of brief stories, which he presented to his future wife under the sobriquet Bellmour, to his Compleat English Gentleman, left unpublished at his death. Novak illuminates such works as Robinson Crusoe and Moll Flanders, novels that changed the course of fiction in their time and have remained towering classics to this day. And he reveals a writer who was a superb observer of his times--an age of dramatic historical, political, and social change. Indeed, through his many pamphlets, newspapers, books of travel, and works of fiction, Defoe commented on everything from birth control to the price of coal, and from flying machines to the dangers of the plague. Beautifully and authoritatively written, this is the first serious, full-scale biography of Defoe to appear in a decade. It gives us, for the first time, a full understanding of the thought and personal experience that lie behind some of the great works of English literature.

The Life of Daniel Defoe

The Life of Daniel Defoe
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Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages : 434
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ISBN-10 : 9781119118008
ISBN-13 : 111911800X
Rating : 4/5 (08 Downloads)

Synopsis The Life of Daniel Defoe by : John Richetti

The Life of Daniel Defoe examines the entire range of Defoe’s writing in the context of what is known about his life and opinions. Features extended and detailed commentaries on Defoe’s political, religious, moral, and economic journalism, as well as on all of his narrative fictions, including Robinson Crusoe Places emphasis on Defoe’s distinctive style and rhetoric Situates his work within the precise historical circumstances of the eighteenth-century in which Defoe was an important and active participant Now available in paperback

Robinson Crusoe Readalong

Robinson Crusoe Readalong
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Publisher : Ags Pub
Total Pages : 64
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ISBN-10 : 0785407707
ISBN-13 : 9780785407706
Rating : 4/5 (07 Downloads)

Synopsis Robinson Crusoe Readalong by : Daniel Defoe

Robinson Crusoe

Robinson Crusoe
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Publisher : Strelbytskyy Multimedia Publishing
Total Pages : 337
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ISBN-10 : PKEY:SMP2300000062687
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Synopsis Robinson Crusoe by : Daniel Defoe

Almost 300 years ago this fascinating novel was published with probably the most long title: The Life and Strange Surprizing 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, Wherein All the Men Perished but Himself. With an Account how he was at last as Strangely Deliver’d by Pyrates. Written by Himself. For hundreds of years this book impresses the imagination by displaying of courage, ingenuity, vitality of the person, caught in such a binding that it is difficult to imagine. But still it is so exciting to imagine, while reading a book in a cozy room. Pretty illustrations by Vladislav Kolomoets provide you with new impressions from reading this legendary story.

The Storm

The Storm
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Total Pages : 300
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ISBN-10 : NLS:B900062621
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Rating : 4/5 (21 Downloads)

Synopsis The Storm by : Daniel Defoe

Robinson Crusoe (Illustrated Classic)

Robinson Crusoe (Illustrated Classic)
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Publisher : SeaWolf Press
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ISBN-10 : 194946069X
ISBN-13 : 9781949460698
Rating : 4/5 (9X Downloads)

Synopsis Robinson Crusoe (Illustrated Classic) by : Daniel Defoe

The Adventures of Robinson Crusoe

The Adventures of Robinson Crusoe
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Total Pages : 524
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ISBN-10 : NYPL:33433074919758
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Rating : 4/5 (58 Downloads)

Synopsis The Adventures of Robinson Crusoe by : Daniel Defoe

A violent storm at sea destroys Robinson Crusoe's ship. He alone survives and is cast ashore on a deserted island. Crusoe must summon all his strength and intelligence to survive and flourish against impossible odds. This is an amazing tale of a young man who overcomes loneliness, tames wild animals, battles ferocious cannibals and dangerous mutineers in a twenty-four year struggle to stay alive!