The Fortunes and Misfortunes of the Famous Moll Flanders (commonly known as simply "Moll Flanders") is a novel written by Daniel Defoe in 1722. Defoe wrote this after his work as a journalist and pamphleteer. By 1722, Defoe had become recognized as a novelist, with the success of Robinson Crusoe in 1719. His political work was tapering off at this point, due to the fall of both Whig and Tory party leaders with whom he had been associated; Robert Walpole was beginning his rise, and Defoe was never fully at home with the Walpole group. Defoe's Whig views are nevertheless evident in the story of...

Robinson Crusoe is the diary of a man shipwrecked on a desert island. He is alone for many years, but then cannibals arrive, bringing with them a prisoner. Can he rescue the prisoner? Will he ever escape from the island? Exciting and powerful classic stories to enrich and extend your children's reading experiences. TreeTops Classics are carefully adapted versions of must-read stories which introduce your readers to significant authors, powerful plots and characters that have stood the test of time. These abridged versions of classics have been sensitively adapted by top children's authors to...

A Plan of the English Commerce is a rare piece of economic history covering the crucial period at the outset of the first Industrial Revolution and the early wave of globalization. Unlike other chroniclers of British economic development, Defoe was contemporary to and often had first-hand experience of important events. His account therefore offers an extraordinary vantage point, free from the distorting lens of modern theoretical explanations. An account rich in anecdotes and penetrating observations, Defoe's work emphasizes neglected aspects of the world economy at the time, such as the...

Daniel DefoeAEs fifth novel, Colonel Jack is the supposed autobiography of an English gentleman who begins life as a child of the London streets. He and his two brothers (both also named Jack) are brought up as pickpockets and highwaymen, but Colonel Jack seeks to improve himself. Kidnapped and taken to America, he becomes first a slave, then an overseer on plantations in Maryland and Virginia. Returning to England, he is drawn into the Jacobite rebellion and into a succession of marriages, all of which end badly for him. Escaping back to Virginia, Jack becomes a successful planter, ending...

Daniel Defoe: Robinson Crusoe. Vollstandige Ausgabe Erstdruck: London (William Taylor) 1719. The Life and Strange Surprising Adventures of Robinson Crusoe of York, Mariner. Hier nach der deutschen Ausgabe: Der vollstandige Robinson Crusoe. Neu nach dem Englischen bearbeitet, 2 Bande, Constanz: W. Wallis, 1829. Vollstandige Neuausgabe mit einer Biographie des Autors. Herausgegeben von Karl-Maria Guth. Berlin 2015. Textgrundlage sind die Ausgaben: Defoe, Daniel]: Der vollstandige Robinson Crusoe. Neu nach dem Englischen bearbeitet, 2 Bande, Constanz: W. Wallis, 1829. Die Paginierung obiger...

Daniel Defoe: Robinson Crusoe. Vollstandige Ausgabe Erstdruck: London (William Taylor) 1719. The Life and Strange Surprising Adventures of Robinson Crusoe of York, Mariner. Hier nach der deutschen Ausgabe: Der vollstandige Robinson Crusoe. Neu nach dem Englischen bearbeitet, 2 Bande, Constanz: W. Wallis, 1829. Vollstandige Neuausgabe mit einer Biographie des Autors. Herausgegeben von Karl-Maria Guth. Berlin 2015. Textgrundlage sind die Ausgaben: Defoe, Daniel]: Der vollstandige Robinson Crusoe. Neu nach dem Englischen bearbeitet, 2 Bande, Constanz: W. Wallis, 1829. Die Paginierung obiger...

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 desierta."