A Journal of the Plague Year (Defoe Daniel)(Paperback)

A Journal of the Plague Year (Defoe Daniel)(Paperback)

Defoe's Journal of the Plague Year is an extraordinary account of the devastation and human suffering inflicted on the city of London by the Great Plague of 1665. Purporting to be an eye-witness, Defoe's fictional narrator recounts in vivid detail the rising death toll and the transformation of the

A Journal of the Plague Year (Defoe Daniel)(Paperback)

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

A Journal of the Plague Year (Defoe Daniel)(Paperback)

Imagine a plague so horrific, only forty percent of the population lived to tell the tale. Written as a first-person account of the world's most dangerous pandemic, the mysterious narrator bears witness to a society that has seemingly given up hope during terrifying times.. From mounting death

A Journal of the Plague Year (Defoe Daniel)(Paperback)

The authoritative text has been fully annotated and makes available a perennially popular novel, one that has often been mistaken for an actual eyewitness account of the last great plague in England. 'Backgrounds' encourages comparison of 1665 documents with those of the early 1720s, when England

Plague Journal (O'Brien Michael)(Paperback)

Plague Journal is Michael O'Brien's third novel in the Children of the Last Days series. The central character is Nathaniel Delaney, the editor of a small-town newspaper, who is about to face the greatest crisis of his life. As the novel begins, ominous events are taking place throughout North

Moll Flanders (Defoe Daniel)(Paperback)

A tour-de-force of writing by Daniel Defoe, this extraordinary novel tells the vivid and racy tale of a woman's experience in the seamy side of life in late seventeenth- and early eighteenth-century England and America. Born in Newgate prison, and seduced in the home of her adoptive family, Moll

A General History of the Pyrates (Defoe Daniel)(Paperback)

Famed for his enduring fictional masterpieces Robinson Crusoe and Moll Flanders, Daniel Defoe also possessed considerable expertise in maritime affairs. As a commission merchant, importer, shipowner, and an active journalist who reported ship news and interviewed surviving pirates, Defoe achieved a

Rise Of The Novel - Studies in Defoe, Richardson and Fielding (Watt Ian)(Paperback / softback)

In the space of a single generation, three eighteenth-century writers - Daniel Defoe, Samuel Richardson and Henry Fielding - invented an entirely new genre of writing: the novel. This book explains why these authors wrote in the way that they did, and how the complex changes in society - the

Penguin Book of the British Short Story: 1 - From Daniel Defoe to John Buchan(Paperback / softback)

Robinson Crusoe (Defoe Daniel)(Pevná vazba)

Daniel Defoe's great masterpiece, in a gorgeous new clothbound edition designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith. These delectable and collectible Penguin editions are bound in high-quality colourful, tactile cloth with foil stamped into the design'I walk'd about on the shore, lifting up

Robinson Crusoe - Daniel Defoe - e-kniha

eBook:,Daniel Defoe relates the tale of an English sailor marooned on a desert island for nearly three decades. An ordinary man struggling to survive in extraordinary circumstances, Robinson Crusoe wrestles with fate and the nature of God. This edition features maps

Tour Through the Whole Island of Great Britain (Defoe Daniel)(Paperback / softback)

Covers Britain in the early eighteenth

Moll Flanders (Defoe Daniel)(Paperback)

The original salacious story of a bad girl who makes goodThese are the fortunes and misfortunes of Moll Flanders: born in Newgate Prison, 12 years a prostitute, five times a wife (once to her own brother), 12 years a thief, and eight years a transported felon in Her Majesty's colony of Virginia

Cold War Steve - Journal of The Plague Year (Steve Cold War)(Pevná vazba)

Back with a vengeance, collage superstar Cold War Steve goes viral, casting a scathing view on the past year on Plague

Robinson Crusoe (Defoe Daniel)(Paperback)

Robinson Crusoe (Defoe Daniel)(Paperback)

Daniel Defoe's enthralling story-telling and imaginatively detailed descriptions have ensured that his fiction masquerading as fact remains one of the most famous stories in English literature. On one level a simple adventure story, the novel also raises profound questions about moral and spiritual

Year of Plagues - A Memoir of 2020 (D'Aguiar Fred)(Paperback / softback)

In this piercing and unforgettable memoir, the award-winning poet reflects on a year of turbulence, fear, and

Robinson Crusoe (Daniel DeFoe)(Paperback / softback)

Moll Flanders (Defoe Daniel)(Paperback / softback)

Robinson Crusoe (Defoe Daniel)(Paperback / softback)

Robinson Crusoe (Defoe Daniel)(Paperback)

Robinson Crusoe es una de las obras mas famosas del celebre escritor ingles Daniel Defoe, publicada en 1719 y considerada la primera novela inglesa. Se trata de una autobiografia ficticia del protagonista, un naufrago ingles que pasa 28 anos en una remota isla

Daniel Defoe's Rail Journey: A Surreal Odyssey Through Modern Britain (Campbell Stuart)(Paperback)

A memoir of the odyssey undertaken by two eccentric retirees as they travel on every mile of railway track in mainland Britain. Surreal and poignant by turns, Stuart Campbell describes the people they meet and the unwanted adventures that befall them. Campbell is aided and abetted by the ghost of

The Watertower (Crew Gary)(Paperback)

20th Anniversary Edition. Selected School Library Journal Best Book of the Year. Winner of the Australian Children's Picture Book of the Year Award. Nobody in Preston could remember when the watertower was built, or who had built it, but there it stood on Shooter's Hill--its iron legs rusted, its

Plague Year - America in the Time of Covid (Wright Lawrence)(Pevná vazba)