Daniel Defoe

On one level a simple adventure story. The main character is ship-wrecked on an island. The novel also raises profound questions about moral and spiritual values, society, and man's abiding acquisitiveness.

As Moll Flanders rises from the infamous Newgate Prison to fame, wealth, and respectability, Moll comes to embody all the excess and vitality of an era

He was a British merchant, manufacturer, insurer, and spy, but Daniel Defoe eventually found his true calling as a writer-and his masterful fiction has endeared him to readers all over the world. A prolific author who published over 500 novels, travel guides, pamphlets, and journals, he was best known for his 1719 adventure novel Robinson Crusoe. Soon after the enormous success of Robinson Crusoe, Defoe wrote this compelling account of high-seas drama...

The lone survivor of a shipwreck lives on a deserted island for many years.

Daniel Defoe's great talent as a writer was to speak in the voices of others. Such was the authenticity of this memoir of a 17th-century soldier of fortune that for over half a century it was considered to be genuine. The struggle of the narrator to turn his observations into facts and to make certain history out of his uncertain experiences combines with vivid descriptions of the battles of the Civil War to give the narrative its dramatic qualities....

What a brilliant rant against female servants, footmen and shoe shiners. The maids come from the countryside and they immediately raise their wages, start wearing fancy silk dresses instead of wool. These even start affairs with the Master's apprentice, his son, or even the masters. This of course wrecks his marriage, family and even his estate at which point she dumps a bastard on him and leaves. All I can say is how horrible those poor rich men...

Seit Daniel Defoe, so vermutet man, im Mittelmeer selbst in die Gefangenschaft von Piraten geriet, ließ ihn die Welt der Seeräuber nicht mehr los. Er besuchte und interviewte sie in den Gefängnissen, verfolgte ihre Prozesse und recherchierte fasziniert ein Leben lang ihre geheimnisvolle Welt. In diesem Roman lässt er Bob Singleton sein abenteuerliches Leben selbst erzählen: In frühester Kindheit von einer Zigeunerin entführt, kommt er als Elfjähriger...

Roxana est abandonnée avec ses enfants par son mari à vingt-deux ans. Elle devient la maîtresse de son logeur et lui donne un héritier. À la mort de son amant, elle en trouve un autre. Cette fois-ci, elle choisit un prince plus par vanité que par amour. Elle vit 8 ans auprès de ce prince, lui donne un enfant, mais les abandonne pour s'allier à de richissimes marchands. Ces derniers la couvrent de somptueux présents, à tel point qu'à 50...

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Daniel Defoe's last novel "Roxana" is perhaps his darkest. Using his "fallen woman" archetype established in his seminal work "Moll Flanders," Defoe tracks the mercurial life of an unnamed female protagonist who adopts the pseudonym Roxana. The story of her rise and fall is a captivating account of the destructive powers of greed and seduction. Roxana begins as a deserted wife with five children. She chooses a life of prostitution for sustenance,...