ADVENTURE CLASSICS - Premium Collection: 8 Novels in One Volume (Illustrated)

Robinson Crusoe, Captain Singleton, Memoirs of a Cavalier, Colonel Jack, Moll Flanders, Roxana, The Consolidator

Daniel Defoe

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This carefully crafted ebook: "ADVENTURE CLASSICS - Premium Collection: 8 Novels in One Volume (Illustrated)" is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents:
Novels:
"Robinson Crusoe" – Defoe's most famous novel tells the story of a man's shipwreck on a desert island for thirty years and his subsequent adventures.
"Colonel Jack" – 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."
"Captain Singleton" – an adventure story that covers a traversal of Africa and taps into the contemporary fascination with piracy.
"Moll Flanders" – The titular heroine appears as a whore, bigamist, and thief, commits adultery and incest, and yet manages to retain the reader's sympathy.
"Roxana: The Fortunate Mistress" – The novel follows the adventures of a young woman from wealth, to prostitution, to freedom.
"The Consolidator" – In this satirical novel, which mixes fantasy with political and social satire, Defoe's narrator travels to the moon.
"Memoirs of a Cavalier" – This novel is set during the Thirty Years' War and the English Civil War. It is presented as a military journal of the Wars in Germany and England.
"The Farther Adventures of Robinson Crusoe" – The sequel to "Robinson" describes how Crusoe traveled back in Bedford.
Biography:
Daniel Defoe by William Minto
Daniel Defoe (1660-1731), was an English writer, journalist, and spy, most famous for his novel Robinson Crusoe. Defoe is noted for being one of the earliest proponents of the novel, and he is considered one of the founders of the English novel.

Über Daniel Defoe

Daniel Defoe war ein englischer Schriftsteller in der Frühzeit der Aufklärung, der durch seinen Roman Robinson Crusoe weltberühmt wurde.

Defoe gilt damit als einer der Begründer des englischen Romans.

(aus wikipedia.de)


Verlag:

e-artnow

Veröffentlicht:

2016

Druckseiten:

ca. 2906

Sprache:

English

Medientyp:

eBook


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