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A Journal of the Plague Year by Daniel Defoe
Category: Classics
all this went off again, and the weather proving cold, and the frost, which began in December, still continuing very severe even till near the end of February, attended with sharp though moderate winds, the bills decreased again, and the city grew healthy, and everybody began to look upon the danger as ...Show more
A Journal of the Plague Year by Daniel Defoe
Category: Classics | Series: Oxford World's Classics
'a Casement violently opened just over my Head, and a Woman gave three frightful Skreetches, and then cry'd, Oh! Death, Death, Death!' Purporting to be an eye-witness account, the Journal of the Plague Year is a record of the devastation wrought by the Great Plague of 1665 on the city of London. Defoe's ...Show more
A Journal of the Plague Year by Daniel Defoe
Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Classics Ser.
In 1665 the plague swept through London, claiming over 97,000 lives. Daniel Defoe was just five at the time of the plague, but he later called on his own memories, as well as his writing experience, to create this vivid chronicle of the epidemic and its victims. A Journal (1722) follows Defoe's fictiona ...Show more
Moll Flanders by Daniel Defoe
Category: Classics | Series: Oxford World's Classics
'Twelve Year a Whore, fives times a Wife (whereof once to her own Brother), Twelve Year a Thief, Eight Year a Transported Felon in Virginia, at last grew Rich, liv'd Honest, and died a Penitent' So the title page of this extraordinary novel describes the career of the woman known as Moll Flanders, whose ...Show more
Moll Flanders by Daniel Defoe
Category: Classics | Series: Transatlantic Classics
This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfectionssuch as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, ...Show more
Moll Flanders by Daniel Defoe
Category: Classics | Series: Wordsworth Classics
With an Introduction and Notes by R.T.Jones, Honorary Fellow of the University of York. The novel follows the life of its eponymous heroine, Moll Flanders, through its many vicissitudes, which include her early seduction, careers in crime and prostitution, conviction for theft and transportation to the ...Show more
Moll Flanders by Daniel Defoe
Category: Classics | Series: Collins Classics
'My true name is so well known in the Records or Registers at Newgate, and in the Old Bailey, and there are some things of such consequence still depending there, relating to my particular conduct, that it is not to be expected I should set my name or the account of my family to this work.' Born in ...Show more
Moll Flanders by Daniel Defoe
Category: Classics
A tale that presents life in the prisons, alleyways and underworlds of eighteenth-century London.
Moll Flanders - Introduction by John Mullan by Daniel Defoe; John Mullan (Introduction by)
Category: Classics | Series: Everyman's Library Classics Ser.
This is the spirited story of a survivor whose racy anecdotes and shady dealings only underline her essential warmth and goodness. But there is nothing sentimental about Moll, who presents herself warts and all. Though her adventures take her abroad, she remains the vivid creation of London.Moll Flander ...Show more
Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe
Category: Graphic Novels | Series: Graphic Revolve: Common Core Editions
Young Robinson Crusoe has grown bored with life so he runs away from home to travel the world. One night, a terrible storm strikes his ship. Robinson awakens to find the ship destroyed and the entire crew dead. All alone on a deserted island, Robinson prepares for a life of solitude only to come face to ...Show more
Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe
Category: Classics
‘I made him know his Name should be Friday, which was the Day I sav’d his Life…I likewise taught him to say Master’ Robinson Crusoe’s seafaring adventures are abruptly ended when he is shipwrecked, the solitary survivor on a deserted island. He gradually creates a life for himself, building a house, cul ...Show more
Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe
Category: Classics | Series: Signet Classics (Paperback)
One man can be an island The classic tale of a man shipwrecked on a remote island, and his struggle to retain his humanity against the forces of nature, as well as do battle with his own fears and loneliness.