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(0)Daniel Defoe
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Dieser 1719 erschienene Roman unterscheidet sich deutlich von den Abenteuerromanen, die Daniel Defoe berühmt gemacht haben. Er handelt von der politischen Großwetterlage im gesamten Europa, wobei die zentrale Bedeutung die Lage im Deutschen Reich einnimmt. Es geht sowohl um den Krieg, als auch um die Herzoge, Könige und Edelmänner Europas. Weiter von den französischen und italienischen Angelegenheiten über die Interessen des schwedischen Königs...
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Duke Classics
Pub. Date
2015
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English
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Jacobitism was a political movement that polarized the United Kingdom in the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries. Its supporters were in favor of re-installing King James II and his heirs to the throne. In this lengthy satirical essay, Robinson Crusoe author Daniel Defoe excoriates the movement and its followers.
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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 on their doors, the dead-carts on their way to the pits-and encounter the horrified citizens of the city, as fear, isolation, and hysteria take hold....
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This edition of Moll Flanders includes a Foreword, Biographical Note, and Afterword by Nancy Springer.
The conditions of Moll Flanders' birth could not have been more depressing. Her mother was a petty thief who was caught and sent to the notorious Newgate prison in London. It was in that prison that Moll was born. Deemed an orphan, Moll was later sent to apprentice as a servant with a respectable family. Moll has designs on a life better than serving...
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(Excerpt): "A faithful and very surprising Account how Dickory Cronke, a Tinner's son, in the County of Cornwall, was born Dumb, and continued so for Fifty-eight years; and how, some days before he died, he came to his Speech; with Memoirs of his Life, and the Manner of his Death."
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Moll, which she emphasizes, is not her birth name, though she never does reveal what it was, is, raised until she is teenager in America by a foster mother. She then gets a job as a household servant where she is, loved by both, of the families’ sons. The oldest convinces her to "act as if, they were, married" in bed, but then is unwilling to marry her, and pawns her off on his younger brother. She is then, widowed, and leaves her children behind,...
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The Floating Press
Pub. Date
2016
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English
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British writer Daniel Defoe is credited with being one of the first writers to dabble in longer-form fiction, eventually leading to the development of the novel format. His final work, published anonymously, follows the life of a remarkable woman who flouts the social strictures of the eighteenth century and takes up with a series of men in order to ensure the survival of her family—but always on her own terms and in a manner consistent with
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Irreverent and ironic, this 1726 satire by the author of Robinson Crusoe examines the evolution of evil and the rise of the historical force known as "the devil." Daniel Defoe's passionate and perceptive survey starts with Satan's origins, chronicling the devil's presence in the Bible and his growing sway over humanity. An overview of satanic influences on eighteenth-century life follows, focusing on monarchs and tyrants as well as common folk. Defoe...
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(Excerpt): "Marlborough's military career spanned two periods. Aware of the danger of the "exorbitant power of France" and the corresponding danger to the Protestant religion, disgusted with James's actions at the Gloucester shipwreck and in dealing with Scottish Protestants, Marlborough had joined the bloodless shift to William of Orange. For William, he led the English forces in Flanders in 1689 and in Ireland in 1690; in 1691 he was in charge of...
73) Oberst Hannes
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Die merkwürdige Lebensgeschichte von Oberst Hannes soll hier dargestellt werden. Oberst Johannes, gemeinhin Oberst Hannes genannt, wird als Edelmann geboren. Er kam in die Lehre eines Erzspitzbuben und betrieb sechsundzwanzig Jahre das Diebeshandwerk. Hannes wird durch eine Hinterlist nach Afrika verkauft und wird Sklave, er kehrte als reicher Kaufmann wieder nach Hause zurück und heiratete viermal. Doch alle seine Frauen erwiesen sich als Huren....
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Excerpt: "When Defoe wrote Robinson Crusoe, nearly two hundred years ago, boys had more time on their hands, fewer books and fewer games than they have now, and they, as well as their fathers, read it and loved it. And when your father and I were boys-though that is rather less than two hundred years ago-we too used often to read it. But boys nowadays do not seem to read Robinson Crusoe as they used to do. It is too long, they think, and there is...
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This special collection brings together Daniel Defoe's two adventure-filled novels about the now famous character, Robinson Crusoe, and Peter Longueville's castaway story, The English Hermit. In The Life and Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, the titular character finds himself the sole survivor of a shipwreck and is marooned on an island, along with an escaped prisoner he names "Friday," for twenty-seven years. After dangerous encounters, the pair is...
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Español
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Nuestro barco pesaba ciento veinte toneladas, tenía seis cañones y una tripulación de catorce hombres, sin contar al capitán, a su siervo y a mí.
Solo sobreviví yo.
Sería un viaje como tantos otros, en el que seguiríamos una ruta muy conocida que nos llevaría de Brasil a África. Esperábamos contar con un tiempo excepcional, cielos despejados y pequeñas olas encrespadas, como las del dorso de un cocodrilo.
Pero los cocodrilos saben morder,...
