Daniel Defoe: 520 books

Classic Crime Press presents you The History of the Remarkable Life of John Sheppard Containing a Particular Account of His Many Robberies and Escapes in a fantastic ebook edition.   A particular Account of his rescuing his pretended Wife from St. Giles's Round House. Of the wonderful...

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 in the Indian Ocean and Arabian Sea....

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...

This novel, which has inspired not only numerous retellings on-screen, but innumerable other tales of people stranded on islands, was first published on April 25, 1719. Robinson Crusoe himself was then credited as its author, and its original title was much longer: "The Life and Strange Surprizing...

HarperCollins is proud to present a range of best-loved, essential classics. ‘My true name is so well known in the Records or Registers at Newgate, and in the Old Bailey, and there are some things of such consequence still depending there, relating to my particular conduct, that it is not to be...

HarperCollins is proud to present a range of best-loved, 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....

With Robinson Crusoe, Defoe wrote what is regarded as the first English novel, and created one of the most popular and enduring myths in literature. Written in an age of exploration and enterprise, it has been variously interpreted as an embodiment of British imperialist values, as a portrayal of...

Born in Newgate prison and abandoned six months later, Moll's drive to find and hold on to a secure place in society propels her through incest, adultery, bigamy, prostitution and a resourceful career as a thief ('the greatest Artist of my time') before she is apprehended and returned to Newgate. If...

On the evening of 26th November 1703, a cyclone from the north Atlantic hammered into southern Britain at over seventy miles an hour, claiming the lives of over 8,000 people. Eyewitnesses reported seeing cows left stranded in the branches of trees and windmills ablaze from the friction of their whirling...

First published in 1726, this full-length study of the devil's role in society combines Biblical history with common sense as Defoe considers the conflict between forces of destructive evil and the benevolent Deity which controls the world. (Excerpt from Goodreads)

The author created an imaginary country called Atlantis to tell some truths about his own. The Atlantis was an image of the Great Britain at that time. In this book the author described the problems of the governmental policy, the problems of its structure and some other aspects. The scholarly introduction...

Moll Flanders e Lady Roxana sono i primi esempi di romanzo di costume della tradizione letteraria inglese. Il rude realismo di Defoe e la sua vitalità quasi animalesca danno vita in quest’opera a un personaggio femminile di grande carattere, come emerge dal lungo titolo originale: «Fu dodici anni...

Lady Roxana conclude il ciclo dei grandi romanzi di Defoe. Implacabile documentario duna lotta quotidiana per lesistenza, narra le vicende di una giovinetta di modeste origini, che la sorte giovane sposa, cinque volte madre e subito vedova e il carattere indipendente spingono allavidità e allambizione:...

Vi sono alcuni libri, nei secoli, che escono dalla letteratura per diventare mitologia: il personaggio, il disegno della vicenda, assurgono in questi casi a un valore universale, e le generazioni che si succedono nel tempo vi riconoscono, volta a volta, i significati che il loro angolo visuale riesce...