Daniel Defoe

Robinson Crusoe is a novel by Daniel Defoe, first published on 25 April 1719. The first edition credited the work's protagonist Robinson Crusoe as its author, leading many readers to believe he was a real person and the book a travelogue of true incidents. Epistolary, confessional, and didactic in form, the book is presented as an autobiography of the title character (whose birth name is Robinson Kreutznaer)-a castawaywho spends thirty years on a remote tropical island near Trinidad, encountering cannibals, captives, and mutineers before being rescued. Statue of Robinson Crusoe at Alexander Selkirk's birthplace of Lower Largo by Thomas Stuart Burnett The story has since been perceived to be based on the life of Alexander Selkirk, a Scottish castaway who lived for four years on the Pacific island called "M s a Tierra," now part of Chile, which was renamed Robinson Crusoe Island in 1966, but the time scale does not match. Other suggested sources for the narrative are the Latin or English translations of Ibn Tufail's Hayy ibn Yaqdhan, an earlier novel also set on a desert island. Another source for Defoe's novel could have been the Robert Knox account of his abduction by the King of Ceylon in 1659 in "An Historical Account of the Island Ceylon." In his 2003 book In Search of Robinson Crusoe, Tim Severin contends that the account of Henry Pitman in a short book chronicling his escape from a Caribbean penal colony and subsequent shipwrecking and desert island misadventures is the inspiration for the story. Arthur Wellesley Secord in his Studies in the narrative method of Defoe (1963: 21-111) painstakingly analyses the composition of Robinson Crusoe and gives a list of possible sources of the story, rejecting the common theory that the story of Selkirk is Defoe's only source.

Irreverent and ironic, this 1726 satire by the author of "Robinson Crusoe"examines the evolution of evil and the rise of thehistorical force known as "the devil." Beginning with asurvey of Satan'sorigins, Defoeexplores devilishinfluences on 18th-century monarchs, tyrants, and ordinary "beaus, beauties, wits, and fools.""

Complete digitally restored reprint (facsimile handmade reproduction) of the original edition of 1920 with excellent resolution and outstanding readability. Illustrated with 16 pictures by Newell Convers Wyeth (1882-1945). Daniel Defoe (1660-1731) was an English trader, writer, journalist, pamphleteer, and spy, most famous for his novel "Robinson Crusoe". Daniel Defoe is noted for being one of the earliest proponents of the novel, as he helped to popularise the form in Britain with others such as Samuel Richardson, and is among the founders of the English novel. He was a prolific and versatile writer, producing more than five hundred books, pamphlets, and journals on various topics, including politics, crime, religion, marriage, psychology, and the supernatural. He was also a pioneer of economic journalism. "Robinson Crusoe" is a novel by Daniel Defoe, first published on 25 April 1719. The first edition credited the work's protagonist Robinson Crusoe as its author, leading many readers to believe he was a real person and the book a travelogue of true incidents.

Complete digitally restored reprint (facsimile handmade reproduction) of the original edition of 1920 with excellent resolution and outstanding readability. Illustrated with 16 color pictures by Newell Convers Wyeth (1882-1945). Extra large (font +40 % in relation to the original edition with the original layout of 1905). This book is in color.

Complete digitally restored reprint (facsimile) of the original edition of 1920 with excellent resolution and outstanding readability. Illustrated with 16 pictures by Newell Convers Wyeth (1882-1945). The Layout is +40 % larger as the original. Daniel Defoe (1660-1731) was an English trader, writer, journalist, pamphleteer, and spy, most famous for his novel "Robinson Crusoe". Daniel Defoe is noted for being one of the earliest proponents of the novel, as he helped to popularise the form in Britain with others such as Samuel Richardson, and is among the founders of the English novel. He was a prolific and versatile writer, producing more than five hundred books, pamphlets, and journals on various topics, including politics, crime, religion, marriage, psychology, and the supernatural. He was also a pioneer of economic journalism. "Robinson Crusoe" is a novel by Daniel Defoe, first published on 25 April 1719. The first edition credited the work's protagonist Robinson Crusoe as its author, leading many readers to believe he was a real person and the book a travelogue of true incidents.

Pr face du Traducteur La fortune litt raire de Robinson Cruso a t si prodigieuse que le nom de l'auteur, aux yeux du public, a presque disparu sous sa gloire. Si Daniel de Fo avait eu la pr caution de faire suivre sa signature du titre qu'il avait la c l brit , la Peste de Londres, Roxana, le Colonel Jacques, le Capitaine Singleton et Moll Flanders auraient fait leur chemin dans le monde. Mais il n'en a pas t ainsi. Pareille aventure tait arriv e Cervantes, apr s avoir crit Don Quichotte. Car on ne lut gu re ses admirables nouvelles, son th tre, sans compter Galath e et Persiles y Sigismunde. Cervantes et Daniel de Fo ne compos rent leurs grandes oeuvres qu'apr s avoir d pass l' ge m r. Tous deux avaient men auparavant une vie tr s active: Cervantes, longtemps prisonnier, ayant vu les hommes et les choses, la guerre et la paix, mutil d'une main. De Fo , prisonnier aussi Newgate, expos au pilori, m l au brassage des affaires politiques au milieu d'une r volution; l'un et l'autre harcel s par des ennuis d'argent, l'un par des dettes, l'autre par des faillites successives; l'un et l'autre nergiques, r sistants, dou s d'une extraordinaire force de travail. Et, ainsi que Don Quichotte contient l'histoire id ale de Cervantes transpos e dans la fiction, Robinson Cruso est l'histoire de Daniel de Fo au milieu des difficult s de la vie. C'est de Fo lui-m me qui l'a d clar dans la pr face au troisi me volume de Robinson: S rieuses r flexions durant la vie et les surprenantes aventures de Robinson Cruso . Ce roman, crit de Fo , bien qu'all gorique est aussi historique. De plus, il existe un homme bien connu dont la vie et les actions forment le sujet de ce volume, et auquel presque toutes les parties de l'histoire font directement allusion. Ceci est la pure v rit ... Il n'y a pas une circonstance de l'histoire imaginaire qui ne soit calqu e sur l'histoire r elle... C'est l'exposition d'une sc ne enti re de vie r elle durant vingt-huit ann es pass es dans les circonstances les plus errantes, affligeantes et d sol es que jamais homme ait travers es; et o j'ai v cu si longtemps d'une vie d' tranges merveilles, parmi de continuelles temp tes; o je me suis battu avec la pire esp ce de sauvages et de cannibales, en d'innombrables et surprenants incidents; o j'ai t nourri par des miracles plus grands que celui des corbeaux; o j'ai souffert toute mani re de violences et d'oppressions, d'injures, de reproches, de m pris des humains, d'attaques de d mons, de corrections du ciel et d'oppositions sur terre... Puis, traitant de la repr sentation fictive de l'emprisonnement forc de Robinson dans son le, de Fo ajoute: Il est aussi raisonnable de repr senter une esp ce d'emprisonnement par une autre, que de repr senter n'importe quelle chose qui existe r ellement par une autre qui n'existe pas. Si j'avais adopt la fa on ordinaire d' crire l'histoire priv e d'un homme, en vous exposant la conduite ou la vie que vous connaissiez, et sur les malheurs ou d faillances de laquelle vous aviez parfois injustement triomph , tout ce que j'aurais dit ne vous aurait donn aucune diversion, aurait obtenu peine l'honneur d'une lecture, ou mieux point d'attention.

Vollst ndiger, digital restaurierter Reprint (in Handarbeit hergestellte Faksimile) der Originalausgabe von 1922 mit exzellenter Aufl sung und hervorragender Lesbarkeit. Frakturschrift. Der bersetzer ins Deutsche ist unbekannt. Es handelt sich um eine k rzere Ausgabe als der englische Originaltext. - Daniel Defoe (geboren Anfang 1660 in London, gestorben am 24. April/5. Mai 1731 in London) war ein englischer Schriftsteller, der durch seinen Roman "Robinson Crusoe" weltber hmt wurde. Daniel Defoe gilt damit als einer der Begr nder des englischen Romans. Im Alter von 59 Jahren ver ffentlichte Daniel Defoe seinen ersten Roman "The Life And Strange Surprizing Adventures Of Robinson Crusoe" (Das Leben und die seltsamen Abenteuer des Robinson Crusoe), der schlagartig zu seinem bekanntesten und ber hmtesten Werk wurde. Inhaltliche Grundlage des Romans waren die Erlebnisse des Seemanns Alexander Selkirk, der sich auf einer der Juan-Fern ndez-Inseln vor der chilenischen K ste hatte aussetzen lassen und dort mehr als vier Jahre verbracht hatte. Die zeitgen ssischen Berichte dar ber dienten Daniel Defoe als Vorlage. Das Buch brachte Daniel Defoe nur 50 Pfund und eine geringe prozentuale Beteiligung bei weiteren Auflagen ein. Sein Verleger kaufte sich vom Erl s einen neuen Laden und hinterlie 50.000 Pfund.

The most consistent of all series in terms of language control, length, and quality of story. David R. Hill, Director of the Edinburgh Project on Extensive Reading.

A General History of the PyratesFrom Their First Rise and Settlement in the Island of Providence, To the Present TimeBy Daniel DefoeWith the remarkable Actions and Adventures of the two Female Pyrates - Mary Read and Anne Bonny;A General History of the Robberies and Murders of the most notorious Pyrates is a 1724 book published in Britain containing biographies of contemporary pirates, which was influential in shaping popular conceptions of pirates. It is the prime source for the biographies of many well known pirates. Its author uses the name Captain Charles Johnson, generally considered a pseudonym. As the Pyrates in the West-Indies have been so formidable and numerous, that they have interrupted the Trade of Europe into those Parts; and our English Merchants, in particular, have suffered more by their Depredations, than by the united Force of France and Spain, in the late War: We do not doubt but the World will be curious to know the Original and Progress of these Desperadoes, who were the Terror of the trading Part of the World. But before we enter upon their particular History, it will not be amiss, by way of Introduction, to shew, by some Examples drawn from History, the great Mischief and Danger which threaten Kingdoms and Commonwealths, from the Increase of these sort of Robbers; when either by the Troubles of particular Times, or the Neglect of Governments, they are not crush'd before they gather Strength. It has been the Case heretofore, that when a single Pyrate has been suffered to range the Seas, as not being worth the Notice of a Government, he has by Degrees grown so powerful, as to put them to the Expence of a great deal of Blood and Treasure, before he was suppress'd. We shall not examine how it came to pass, that our Pyrates in the West-Indies have continually increased till of late; this is an Enquiry which belongs to the Legislature, or Representatives of the People in Parliament, and to them we shall leave it. Our Business shall be briefly to shew, what from Beginnings, as inconsiderable as these, other Nations have suffered.

Robinson Crusoe berättar om äventyren med Robinson Crusoe, sonen till en pensionerad tysk köpman bosatt i York. Trots hans fars önskan att han skulle bli advokat, leder Crusoes kärlek till havet honom att tillbringa 28 år på en avlägsen tropisk ö nära Trinidad. Han stöter på kannibaler, fångar och rebeller innan han räddas. Förhoppningen är att denna bok ska fånga barns intresse och nära deras fantasi genom berättelsen.