1974
| IDW is proud to introduce a new line of graphic novels that adapt some of the best-loved books of all-time. Next up is Daniel Defoe's Robinson Crusoe. Shipwrecked on a deserted island, Robinson Crusoe has a solitary existence trying to survive from day-to-day by using the things that nature puts at his disposal. Many grim years pass, full of despair and danger, but Robinson always manages to confront his difficulties and survive. He is tenacious and philosophical, employing endless ingenuity and....[more] |
| Traduction de Marcel Schwob |
1917
| A JOURNAL OF THE PLAGUE YEAR By Daniel Defoe, being observations or memorialsof the most remarkable occurrences, as well public as private, which happened in London during the last great visitation in 1665. Written by a Citizen who continued all the while in London. Never made public before |
1912
| I had two elder brothers, one of which was lieutenant-colonel to an English regiment of foot in Flanders, formerly commanded by the famous Colonel Lockhart, and was killed at the battle near Dunkirk against the Spaniards. What became of my second brother I never knew, any more than my father or mother did know what was become of me. |
2009
| Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork. |
2004
| That homely proverb, used on so many occasions in England, viz. "That what is bred in the bone will not go out of the flesh," was never more verified than in the story of my Life. Any one would think that after thirty-five years' affliction, and a variety of unhappy circumstances, which few men, if any, ever went through before, and after near seven years of peace and enjoyment in the fulness of all things; grown old, and when, if ever, it might be allowed me to have had experience of every stat....[more] |
1969
| Daniel Defoe was a writer, journalist and spy. He was one of the first authors to write a novel. In An Essay Upon Projects Defoe defines the word project and enlarges on the concept including looking at the economic ramifications of several projects he was personally familiar with. The Introduction sums up this first work by Defoe as follows. ?It is practical in the highest degree, while running over with fresh speculation that seeks everywhere the well-being of society by growth of material and....[more] |
1960
| That all Defoe's novels, with the exception of 'Robinson Crusoe, '' should have been covered with the dust of neglect for many generations, is a plain proof of how much fashions in taste affect the popularity of the British classics. It is true that three generations or so ago, Defoe's works were edited by both Sir Walter Scott and Hazliit, and that this masterly piece of realism, 'Captain Singleton, ' was reprinted a few years back in 'The Camelot Classics, ' but it is safe to say that out of e....[more] |
2001
| Large print edition! "As the city itself stands in a vale on the bank, and at the conjunction of two small rivers, so the country rising every way," so the author describes a scene in this travelogue. |
1916
| According to Humboldt and other writers on climatology an elevation of two hundred and sixty-seven feet above the level of the sea is equivalent in general influence upon vegetation to a degree of latitude northward at the level of the ocean. |
| Nowhere is the influence of sex more plainly manifested than in the formulation of religious conceptions and creeds states the author. |
1969
| Roxana (1724), Defoe's last and darkest novel, is the autobiography of a woman who has traded her virtue, at first for survival, and then for fame and fortune. Its narrator tells the story of her own `wicked' life as the mistress of rich and powerful men. A resourceful adventuress, she is alsoan unforgiving analyst of her own susceptibilities, who tells us of the price she pays for her successes. Endowed with many seductive skills, she is herself seduced: by money, by dreams of rank, and by the ....[more] |
2004
| Drunk'nness, the Darling Favourite of Hell, Chose Germany to Rule; and Rules so well, No Subjects more obsequiously obey, None please so well, or are so pleas'd as they. The cunning Artist manages so well, He lets them Bow to Heav'n, and Drink to Hell. If but to Wine and him they Homage pay. |
1995
| It was about the beginning of September 1664 that I among the rest of my neighbors heard in ordinary discourse that the plague was returned again in Holland...' (Excerpt from Chapter 1) |
1974
| Edited For The First Time From The Author's Autograph Manuscript In The British Museum, With Introduction, Notes, And Index. |
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