The Life and Adventures of Robinson Crusoe relates the story of a man's shipwreck on a desert island and his subsequent adventures. Epistolary, confessional, and didactic in form, the book is presented as an autobiography of the title character —a castaway who spends thirty years on a remote tropical island near Trinidad, encountering cannibals, captives, and mutineers, before ultimately being rescued. The story has been perceived to be based on the life of Alexander Selkirk, a Scottish...
This classic of English literature tells the story of the fall and eventual redemption of a lone woman in 17th-century England. It purports to be the true account of the life of the eponymous Moll, detailing her exploits from birth until old age. The titular heroine appears as a whore, bigamist, and thief, lives in The Mint, commits adultery and incest, and yet manages to retain the reader's sympathy. Daniel Defoe (1660-1731) was an English trader, writer, journalist, pamphleteer, and spy,...
Colonel Jack follows an orphaned boy from a life of poverty and crime to colonial prosperity, military and marital imbroglios, and religious conversion, driven by a problematic notion of becoming a «gentleman.» Colonel Jack prominently tackles the subjects of money and crime. The novel begins with Jack as an abandoned illegitimate child, whose attending nurse is instructed by his father to inform Jack when he grows up that he is a «Gentleman». Jack goes through many adventures, initially turning...
"Military Memoirs of Capt. George Carleton" by Daniel Defoe. Published by Good Press. Good Press publishes a wide range of titles that encompasses every genre. From well-known classics & literary fiction and non-fiction to forgotten−or yet undiscovered gems−of world literature, we issue the books that need to be read. Each Good Press edition has been meticulously edited and formatted to boost readability for all e-readers and devices. Our goal is to produce eBooks that are user-friendly...
"Memoirs of Major Alexander Ramkins (1718)" by Daniel Defoe. Published by Good Press. Good Press publishes a wide range of titles that encompasses every genre. From well-known classics & literary fiction and non-fiction to forgotten−or yet undiscovered gems−of world literature, we issue the books that need to be read. Each Good Press edition has been meticulously edited and formatted to boost readability for all e-readers and devices. Our goal is to produce eBooks that are user-friendly...
"History of the Plague in London" by Daniel Defoe. Published by Good Press. Good Press publishes a wide range of titles that encompasses every genre. From well-known classics & literary fiction and non-fiction to forgotten−or yet undiscovered gems−of world literature, we issue the books that need to be read. Each Good Press edition has been meticulously edited and formatted to boost readability for all e-readers and devices. Our goal is to produce eBooks that are user-friendly and...
Robinson Crusoe strandet nach einem Schiffbruch auf einer einsamen Insel, kann aber verschiedene Ausrüstungsgegenstände von seinem Schiff retten. Die Insel wird gelegentlich von Kannibalen besucht. Robinson gelingt es, eines der vorgesehenen Schlachtopfer zu befreien, das später sein Freund und Diener Freitag wird. Eines Tages ankert ein englisches Schiff vor der Insel, dessen Mannschaft gemeutert hat. Nach harten Kämpfen gelingt es Robinson, das Schiff zurückzuerobern. Nun werden die...
Ich Robinson – Du Freitag! Robinson Crusoe verbringt als einziger Überlebender eines Schiffbruchs 28 Tage auf einer (vermeintlich) einsamen Insel. Doch eines Tages entdeckt er an einem abgelegenen Strand Wilde, die sich genüßlich auf ein schauriges Mahl vorbereiten: ganz offenbar wollen sie einen Gefangenen verspeisen…
Der Klassiker aus dem bekannten Märchenlandkatalog: Die Geschichte des Seemanns Robinson Crusoe, der Schiffbruch erleidet, sich auf eine einsame Insel rettet und dank seines Geschicks dort viele Jahre überlebt. (Teil 1)
Der Klassiker aus dem bekannten Märchenlandkatalog: Die Geschichte des Seemanns Robinson Crusoe, der Schiffbruch erleidet, sich auf eine einsame Insel rettet und dank seines Geschicks dort viele Jahre überlebt. (Teil 2)
Robinson Crusoe is the classic tale about one man's lust for adventure. Crusoe leaves his parents and hometown for the open sea in the year 1651. But the ocean can be unforgiving and Crusoe, unfortunately, learns this the hard way. Through a series of wild events he ends up shipwrecked on a shore in South America, being forced to salvage what he can in order to survive. Overcoming his despair, Crusoe begins a new life on this island searching for meaning and eventually finding redemption....
The Storm relates the events of a week-long storm that hit London starting on 24 November and reaching its height on the night of 26/27 November 1703. It is known as the Great Storm of 1703, and it was described by Defoe as «The Greatest, the Longest in Duration, the widest in Extent, of all the Tempests and Storms that History gives any Account of since the Beginning of Time.» During the work on this piece Defoe used other peoples personal accounts of the storm submitted to him through...