"From Their First Rise and Settlement in the Island of Providence, To the Present Time"
By Daniel Defoe
With 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,...
A General History of the Pyrates
"From Their First Rise and Settlement in the Island of Providence, To the Present Time"
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. It was published under the full title The Life and Strange Surprizing Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, Of York, Mariner: Who lived Eight and Twenty Years, all alone in an un-inhabited Island on the Coast of America, near the Mouth of the Great River of Oroonoque; Having been cast on Shore by Shipwreck, wherein all the Men perished but...
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...
Preface du Traducteur La fortune litteraire de Robinson Crusoe a ete si prodigieuse que le nom de l'auteur, aux yeux du public, a presque disparu sous sa gloire. Si Daniel de Foe avait eu la precaution de faire suivre sa signature du titre qu'il avait a la celebrite, 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 ete ainsi. Pareille aventure etait arrivee a Cervantes, apres avoir ecrit Don Quichotte. Car on ne lut guere ses admirables nouvelles, son theatre, sans compter Galathee et Persiles...
Preface du Traducteur La fortune litteraire de Robinson Crusoe a ete si prodigieuse que le nom de l'auteur, aux yeux du public, a presque disparu sous...
Daniel Defoe's Robinson Crusoe was first published on April 25, 1719 during the age of exploration and enlightenment. The world was actively explored, mapped, settled, and reported back to various European ports and capitals. Readers in the 1700's considered long distance travel perhaps in the same way we regard space travel today - an exotic privileged accessible to a few well trained professions. The average reader of the period barely travelled a more than a few miles from their homes. Stories of far away places, exotic cultures and fanciful creatures were all the rage at that time....
Daniel Defoe's Robinson Crusoe was first published on April 25, 1719 during the age of exploration and enlightenment. The world was actively explor...
