Daniel Defoe: 520 books

All'interno della vasta produzione di Defoe, questo romanzo risulta fondamentale per due motivi. Il primo è che l'autore ha qui riversato tutta la sua vasta gamma di conoscenze del mondo e la propria esperienza umana e professionale. È infatti intriso della sua visione puritana, che sfocia in una...

Datato 1724, questo particolare romanzo di Defoe è l'autobiografia di un'avventuriera francese che è costretta a scappare in Inghilterra a causa della fede religiosa dei suoi genitori, ugonotti. Dopo essere stata sposata con un birraio che la rende madre e la abbandona per fuggire all'estero, Roxana...

Mit der auf ihr Leben zurückblickenden Moll Flanders schuf Defoe eine sympathische, herzlich ironische und mit dem Tiefgang der Erfahrung ihre Handlungen erklärende Erzählerin, die auf ihr Glück wie auch auf ihre wenigen, aber innigen Freundschaften vertraut. Besonders während Molls Karriere...

This fascinating volume from the author of such influential novels as Robinson Crusoe and Moll Flanders offers an analytical take on the figure of Satan. Although Defoe offers a comprehensive history of the symbolic and literary significance of the devil, he also believes that the devil plays an active...

Vindication of the Press Or, an essay on the usefulness of writing, on criticism, and the qualification of authors A Vindication of the Press_ is one of Defoe's most characteristic pamphlets and for this reason as well as for its rarity deserves reprinting. Besides the New York Public...

Thought to have been inspired by the true-life experiences of a marooned sailor, Robinson Crusoe tells the story of the sole survivor of a shipwreck, stranded on a Caribbean island, who prevails against all odds, enduring three decades of solitude while mastering both himself and his strange new world....

Of Captain Misson and His Crew, one of Defoe's most remarkable and neglected works of fiction. (Excerpt from Goodreads)

Ecco il padre di tutti i moderni romanzi di avventura: questo capolavoro di Defoe, pubblicato nel 1719, è anche considerato da molti studiosi anche una pietra miliare per il genere romanzesco contemporaneo. L'uomo solo che per sopravvivere deve contare solo sulle proprie forze, trovando ausilio nella...

A detailed account of the travels undertaken by Defoe roughly around 1722 is presented in this work. A unique travelogue it explains the places as well as the sentiments of the author during the tours. The work engrosses the reader completely.

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...

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. (Excerpt from Goodreads)

Cuando naufragó Robinson en aquella isla desierta, no podía imaginarse que pasaría allí veintiocho años, sembraría arroz y cebada, haría queso y encontraría a un buen salvaje a quien evangelizar. Pero Robinson no es solo un hombre hábil, capaz de sobrevivir, y aún de prosperar, a fuerza...

Clássico de aventura do século XVIII e primeiro romance da era burguesa, obra de enorme sucesso na literatura universal. A edição original, de 1719, não contou com o nome de Defoe na capa, pois a intenção do autor era que os leitores considerassem o texto, em primeira pessoa, um autêntico...

General scholarly opinion is that Defoe really did think of the Devil as a participant in world history. He spends some time discussing Milton's Paradise Lost and explaining why he considers it inaccurate. His view is 18th century Presbyterian - he blames the Devil for the Crusades and sees him as close to Europe's Catholic powers.