Daniel Defoe: 520 books

Le titre original de ce roman est Heurs et Malheurs de la fameuse Moll Flanders, inspiré par un personnage historique, Moll la coupeuse de bourse. On aurait pu le sous-titrer «La solitude de la voleuse dans les bas-fonds londoniens». Il nous raconte l'histoire d'une jeune femme née et abandonnée...

La novela es una relato ficticio de las experiencias de un hombre durante el año de 1665, en el que la ciudad deLondres sufrió el azote de la gran plaga. El libro es narrado cronológicamente de forma aproximada, aunque sin secciones ni capítulos.

Jeder kennt die Welt der Piraten als abenteuerliches Universum aus Holzbein, Säbelkampf und Totenkopfflagge. Doch nur wenige wissen, dass viele Seeräuber ihre Beute teilten, demokratische Versammlungen abhielten und Frauen und entlaufene Sklaven aufnahmen. Die fortschrittlichen Gemeinschaften der...

"Bringt eure Toten raus!" Dieser von Glockenläuten begleitete Ruf der in den Straßen umherfahrenden Leichensammler hat Leser über die Jahrhunderte mit kaltem Grauen erfüllt. Daniel Defoe, der bekannte Schriftsteller und Autor von "Robinson Crusoe", war zur Zeit der in den Jahren...

'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...

*This Book is annotated (it contains a detailed biography of the author).  *An active Table of Contents has been added by the publisher for a better customer experience.  *This book has been checked and corrected for spelling errors. This is the legendary story of the most revolutionary...

La storia, per certi versi epica, della vita di un povero trovatello che attraverso una vita avventurosa e spesso violenta trova infine il proprio riscatto. Sono i tratti distintivi di questo romanzo di Defoe, padre del romanzo inglese, che miscela con grande maestria realtà e finzione, racconto...

Edition enrichie (Présentation, notes, dossier, filmographie, chronologie et bibliographie) Après quelques premières expéditions, Robinson Crusoé, marin d’York, s’embarque pour la Guinée le 1er septembre 1659. Mais le bateau essuie une si forte tempête qu’il dérive pendant plusieurs...

Après quelques premières expéditions, Robinson Crusoé, marin d’York, s’embarque pour la Guinée le 1er septembre 1659. Mais le bateau essuie une si forte tempête qu’il dérive pendant plusieurs jours et finalement fait naufrage au nord du Brésil. Seul survivant, Robinson parvient à gagner...

* Book : The Life, Adventures & Piracies of the Famous Captain Singleton * Biography * Bibliography The narrative describes the life of an Englishman, stolen from a well-to-do family as a child and raised by Gypsies who eventually makes his way to sea. One half of the book concerns Singleton's...

Going back to ancient Biblical texts, Defoe uses the ideas we have had about the Devil and holds them up to the historical evidence. This shows where many misconceptions about how we think about the spiritual source of evil, a being that started as a powerful being that was to be feared to a trickster...

In 1665, the Great Plague swept through London, claiming nearly 100,000 lives. In A Journal of the Plague Year, Defoe vividly chronicles the progress of the epidemic. We follow his fictional narrator through a city transformed-the streets and alleyways deserted, the houses of death with crosses daubed...

Defoe’s “particular and diverting account of whatever is curious and worth observation” in his native country, told in a series of letters, was founded upon seventeen separate tours in the counties, and three larger tours through the whole country. He said he had “viewed the north part of...

The narrative describes the life of an Englishman, stolen from a well-to-do family as a child and raised by Gypsies who eventually makes his way to sea. One half of the book concerns Singleton's crossing of Africa and the later half concerns his life as a pirate. Defoe's description of piracy focuses...