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Robinson Crusoe (Paperback)
Daniel Defoe; Introduction by Doreen Roberts; Notes by Doreen Roberts; Series edited by Keith Carabine
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With an Introduction and Notes by Doreen Roberts, Rutherford
College, University of Kent at Canterbury. From its first
publication in 1719, Robinson Crusoe has been printed in over 700
editions. It has inspired almost every conceivable kind of
imitation and variation, and been the subject of plays, opera,
cartoons, and computer games. The character of Crusoe has entered
the consciousness of each succeeding generation as readers add
their own interpretation to the adventures so thrillingly
'recorded' by Defoe. Praised by eminent figures such as Coleridge,
Rousseau and Wordsworth, this perennially popular book was cited by
Karl Marx in Das Kapital to illustrate economic theory. However it
is readers of all ages over the last 280 years who have given
Robinson Crusoe its abiding position as a classic tale of
adventure.
From its first publication in 1719, Robinson Crusoe has been
printed in over 700 editions. It has inspired almost every
conceivable kind of imitation and variation, and been the subject
of plays, opera, cartoons, and computer games. The character of
Crusoe has entered the consciousness of each succeeding generation
as readers add their own interpretation to the adventures so
thrillingly 'recorded' by Defoe. Praised by eminent figures such as
Coleridge, Rousseau and Wordsworth, this perennially popular book
was cited by Karl Marx in Das Kapital to illustrate economic
theory. However it is readers of all ages over the last 280 years
who have given Robinson Crusoe its abiding position as a classic
tale of adventure.
Little treasures, the FLAME TREE COLLECTABLE CLASSICS are chosen to
create a delightful and timeless home library. Each stunning, gift
edition features deluxe cover treatments, ribbon markers, luxury
endpapers and gilded edges. The unabridged text is accompanied by a
Glossary of Victorian and Literary terms produced for the modern
reader. After a dramatic shipwreck, Robinson Crusoe is a castaway
on a tropical island for 28 years. Defoe's classic tale features a
series of events involving mutineers and prisoners, while Crusoe
wrestles with his own solitude. Probably the first true novel in
the English language.
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Robinson Crusoe (Hardcover)
Daniel Defoe; Illustrated by Sam Citron
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Despite the wishes of his parents, Robinson Crusoe is determined to
devote himself to a life at sea. Luck, however is not with him in
his various voyages - his first is shipwrecked and his second taken
by pirates, yet nothing dissuades him from his passion. One day, en
route to Africa, his ship is wrecked, leaving him marooned on an
uninhabited island, with no way to return to civilisation...
Classics Illustrated tells this wonderful tale in colourful comic
strip form, offering an excellent introduction for younger readers.
This edition also includes theme discussions and study questions,
which can be used both in the classroom or at home to further
engage the reader in the work at hand.
Moll's quest for respectability takes her to the New World, first
as a wife and then as a transported felon in Virginia. Newgate
Prison casts its shadow over the story, but it is here that Moll's
moral regeneration takes place, leading to repentance, reunion with
her husband and son, and finally worldly prosperity. In writing
Moll Flanders, Defoe drew on various literary traditions and his
own rich background to create a work of originality and genius.
Appendices include related writings by Defoe, contemporary
responses to Moll Flanders, and eighteenth-century documents on
crime, prisons, and the Virginia colony.
Immensely readable history by the author of Robinson Crusoe incorporates the author's celebrated flair for journalistic detail, and represents the major source of information about piracy in the early 18th century. Defoe recounts the daring and bloody deeds of such outlaws as Edward Teach (alias Blackbeard), Captain Kidd, Mary Read, Anne Bonny, many others. New Introduction provides insights into the origins and significance of this important historical work. Commentary and Notes. Indexes.
Michael Shinagel has collated the reprint with all six authorized
editions published by Taylor in 1719 to achieve a text that is
faithful to Defoe's original edition. Annotations assist the reader
with obscure words and idioms, biblical references, and nautical
terms. "Contexts" helps the reader understand the novel s
historical and religious significance. Included are four
contemporary accounts of marooned men, Defoe s autobiographical
passages on the novel s allegorical foundation, and aspects of the
Puritan emblematic tradition essential for understanding the novel
s religious aspects. "Eighteenth-and Nineteenth-Century Opinions"
is a comprehensive study of early estimations by prominent literary
and political figures, including Alexander Pope, Jean-Jacques
Rousseau, Samuel Johnson, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, William
Wordsworth, Edgar Allen Poe, Thomas Babington Macaulay, Charles
Dickens, Karl Marx, and John Stuart Mill. "Twentieth-Century
Criticism" is a collection of fourteen essays (five of them new to
the Second Edition) that presents a variety of perspectives on
Robinson Crusoe by Virginia Woolf, Ian Watt, Eric Berne,
Maximillian E. Novak, Frank Budgen, James Joyce, George A. Starr,
J. Paul Hunter, James Sutherland, John J. Richetti, Leopold
Damrosch, Jr., John Bender, Michael McKeon, and Carol Houlihan
Flynn. A Chronology of Defoe s life and work and an updated
Selected Bibliography are also included."
Part of the outstanding biographical series - edited by Richard
Holmes - that recovers the great classical tradition of English
biography. Every book is a biographical masterpiece, still
thrilling to read and vividly alive. In this pioneering series,
Richard Holmes, the world's leading Romantic biographer, sets out
to recover the great forgotten tradition of English biographical
writing. 'I have had no time for dusty tomes,' writes Holmes, 'I
have looked for brevity, intelligence and style. Above all, I have
sought out great biographical writers: biographers with passion,
biographers who have found a way to the heart and soul of a
memorable subject.' Jack Sheppard was an 18th-century Houdini - a
handsome young escape artist who broke out of his cell on Newgate's
grim Death Row three times. Jonathan Wild was the infamous
Thief-Taker General who helped to recapture him and many other
criminals, only to be tried and executed himself for racketeering,
among scenes of mayhem at Tyburn. Daniel Defoe, the master of
adventure fiction, was fascinated by 'True Confessions' and the
workings of the criminal personality (including its daring, its
stoicism and its humour). He was the first to retell these stories,
based on personal interviews in Newgate, which also include a
thrilling (sometimes hour by hour) reconstruction of events.
This comprehensive and authoritative edition of the correspondence
of Daniel Defoe situates each letter in its biographical, literary,
and historical contexts. A unique source for a turbulent period of
British history, Defoe's correspondence spans topics including the
first age of party marked by Tory and Whig rivalry, religious
tensions between the Church and Dissenters, the uncertainty of the
monarchical succession, the birth of Great Britain and its
establishment as a global empire, and the use of the press to mould
public opinion. As well as an introduction discussing Defoe's
epistolary habits and the distinctive features of his letters,
headnotes and annotations explain each document's occasion,
beginning in 1703 with Defoe hunted by the government for sedition,
and ending in 1730 with him again in hiding, fleeing creditors
months before his death. The volume is illustrated with examples of
Defoe's letters, offering a fresh window onto Defoe's manuscript
habits.
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Robinson Crusoe (Paperback)
Daniel Defoe; Illustrated by Katy Elphinstone
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Defying his parents, Robinson Crusoe goes to sea. He is captured by
pirates but escapes to Brazil. He makes a fortune using slave
labour to grow tobacco and sugar. He sails to Africa to bring back
more slaves but is shipwrecked on an uninhabited island. Everyone
else is drowned. For over twenty years he lives alone. He learns to
hunt and fish and make shelter. Then the cannibals arrive. Will
this be the end of his adventure – or the chance to escape?
This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book
may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages,
poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the
original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We
believe this work is culturally important, and despite the
imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of
our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works
worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in
the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book.
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essential classics.
'It happen'd one Day about Noon going towards my Boat, I was
exceedingly surpriz'd with the Print of a Man's naked Foot on the
Shore.'
Shipwrecked in a storm at sea, Robinson Crusoe is washed up on a
remote and desolate island. As he struggles to piece together a
life for himself, Crusoe's physical, moral and spiritual values are
tested to the limit. For 24 years he remains in solitude and learns
to tame and master the island, until he finally comes across
another human being. Considered a classic literary masterpiece, and
frequently interpreted as a comment on the British Imperialist
approach at the time, Defoe's fable was and still is revered as the
very first English novel.
Robinson Crusoe is one of the most famous literary characters in
history, and his story has spawned hundreds of retellings. Inspired
by the life of Alexander Selkirk, a sailor who lived for several
years on a Pacific island, the novel tells the story of Crusoe's
survival after shipwreck on an island, interaction with the
mainland's native inhabitants, and eventual rescue. Read variously
as economic fable, religious allegory, or imperialist fantasy,
Crusoe has never lost its appeal as one of the most compelling
adventure stories of all time. In addition to an introduction and
helpful notes, this Broadview Edition includes a wide range of
appendices that situate Defoe's 1719 novel amidst castaway
narratives, economic treatises, reports of cannibalism,
explorations of solitude, and Defoe's own writings on slavery and
the African trade. A final appendix presents images of Crusoe's
rescue of Friday from a dozen of the most significant illustrated
editions of the novel published between 1719 and 1920.
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Moll Flanders (Paperback, New edition)
Daniel Defoe; Introduction by R.T. Jones; Notes by R.T. Jones; Series edited by Keith Carabine
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With an Introduction and Notes by R.T.Jones, Honorary Fellow of the
University of York. The novel follows the life of its eponymous
heroine, Moll Flanders, through its many vicissitudes, which
include her early seduction, careers in crime and prostitution,
conviction for theft and transportation to the plantations of
Virginia, and her ultimate redemption and prosperity in the New
World. Moll Flanders was one of the first social novels to be
published in English and draws heavily on Defoe's experience of the
topography and social conditions prevailing in the London of the
late 17th century.
The Penguin English Library Edition of Robinson Crusoe by Daniel
Defoe 'I walk'd about on the shore, lifting up my hands, and my
whole being, as I may say, wrapt up in the contemplation of my
deliverance ... reflecting upon all my comrades that were drown'd,
and that there should not be one soul sav'd but my self ... ' Who
has not dreamed of life on an exotic isle, far away from
civilization? Here is the novel which has inspired countless
imitations by lesser writers, none of which equal the power and
originality of Defoe's famous book. Robinson Crusoe, set ashore on
an island after a terrible storm at sea, is forced to make do with
only a knife, some tobacco, and a pipe. He learns how to build a
canoe, make bread, and endure endless solitude. That is, until,
twenty-four years later, when he confronts another human being.
First published in 1719, Robinson Crusoe has been praised by such
writers as James Joyce, Virginia Woolf, and Samuel Johnson as one
of the greatest novels in the English language. The Penguin English
Library - 100 editions of the best fiction in English, from the
eighteenth century and the very first novels to the beginning of
the First World War.
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Roxana (Paperback)
Daniel Defoe; Edited by David Blewett
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The decline and defeat of a woman fatally tempted by the sinful glamour of immorality. Roxana (1724) was Defoe's last novel. It is a fascinating work, simultaneously strange and tragic, which dramatizes the moral deterioration and degradation of its complex heroine. Mlle Beleau, or Roxana as she becomes known, enters upon a career as a courtesan. She passes from one protector to another in England, France and Holland and amasses much wealth. But she is fatally torn between the dull virtue of middle-class respectability and the evil attractions of the beckoning city lights. The only one of Defoe's novels that does not end with the triumph of its protagonist, Roxana is nevertheless a triumphant work of art. It is of enormous historical and social interest, highlighting as it does the complex relationship that existed in Defoe's time between public respectability and private corruption.
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Robinson Crusoe (Hardcover)
Daniel Defoe; Illustrated by Katy Elphinstone; Retold by Margaret Elphinstone
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Defying his parents, Robinson Crusoe goes to sea. He is captured by
pirates but escapes to Brazil. He makes a fortune using slave
labour to grow tobacco and sugar. He sails to Africa to bring back
more slaves but is shipwrecked on an uninhabited island. Everyone
else is drowned. For over twenty years he lives alone. He learns to
hunt and fish and make shelter. Then the cannibals arrive. Will
this be the end of his adventure - or the chance to escape?
This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book
may have occasional imperfectionssuch as missing or blurred pages,
poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the
original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We
believe this work is culturally important, and despite the
imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of
our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed
worksworldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the
imperfections in the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this
valuable book.++++The below data was compiled from various
identification fields in the bibliographic record of this title.
This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to ensure
edition identification: ++++ Moll Flanders: And History Of The
Devil; Volume 3 Of Novels And Miscellaneous Works; Daniel Defoe
Daniel Defoe Bell, 1871 Religion; Christian Theology; Angelology
& Demonology; Devil; Religion / Christian Theology / Angelology
& Demonology; Religion / Demonology & Satanism
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