The Fortunes and Misfortunes of the Famous Moll Flanders (commonly known simply as Moll Flanders) is a novel by Daniel Defoe, first published in 1722. It purports to be the true account of the life of the eponymous Moll, detailing her exploits from birth until old age. The novel is based partially on the life of Moll King, a London criminal whom Defoe met while visiting Newgate Prison.

The book starts with the statement about Crusoe's marriage in England. He bought a little farm in Bedford and had three children: two sons and one daughter. Our hero suffered a distemper and a desire to see "his island." He could talk of nothing else, and one can imagine that no one took his stories seriously, except his wife. She told him, in tears, "I will go with you, but I won't leave you." But in the middle of this felicity, Providence unhinged him at once, with the loss of his wife.

The narrative describes the life of the Englishman, Singleton, stolen from a well-to-do family as a child and raised by Gypsies, eventually making his way to sea. The former half of the book concerns Singleton's crossing of Africa, the latter half concerning his life as a pirate in the Indian Ocean and Arabian Sea. Defoe's description of piracy focuses for the most part on matters of economics and logistics, and Singleton's pirate behaves more like a merchant adventurer, perhaps Defoe's comment on the mercantilism of his day.

Moll Flanders est l'histoire d'une jeune femme nee et abandonnee dans la prison de Newgate (prison de Londres au xviiie siecle), et qui est forcee de se debrouiller seule pour faire sa vie. Ainsi, elle se mariera cinq fois dans l'espoir a chaque fois d'acquerir une certaine securite, notamment economique, partira s'installer dans la colonie britannique de Virginie, en Amerique, et, decouvrant que par un hasard malencontreux, elle s'est mariee a son propre frere, elle reviendra en Angleterre, et entamera une vie de voleuse des bas-fonds londoniens du xviiie siecle. Finalement, apres avoir ete...

Giving an Exact Description of the manner of his wonderful Escape from the Castle in Newgate, and of the Methods he took afterward for his Security. Written by himself during his Confinement in the Middle Stone-Room, after his being retaken in Drury Lane. To which is added, A true Representation of his Escape from the Condemn'd Hold, curiously engraven on a Copper Plate. The whole Publish'd at the particular Request of the Prisoner. Jack Sheppard (4 March 1702 - 16 November 1724) was a notorious English thief and gaol-breaker of early 18th-century London. Born into a poor family, he was...

The Storm (1704) is a pioneering work of journalism and science reporting by British author Daniel Defoe. It has been called the first substantial work of modern journalism, the first detailed account of a hurricane in Britain. It relates the events of a week-long storm that hit London starting on 24 November and reaching its height on the night of 26/27 November 1703. Known as the Great Storm of 1703, and described by Defoe as "The Greatest, the Longest in Duration, the widest in Extent, of all the Tempests and Storms that History gives any Account of since the Beginning of Time."

Robinson Crusoe is a novel by Daniel Defoe, first published on 25 April 1719. This first edition credited the work's fictional 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 considerably longer original 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,...

Robinzon Kruzo - roman angliyskogo pisatelya Danielya Defo, napisannyy kak vymyshlennaya avtobiografiya, tem ne menee, osnovan na real'nykh sobytiyakh, proizoshedshikh s shotlandskim moryakom Aleksandrom Sel'kirkom, provedshim chetyre goda na neobitaemom ostrove, raspolozhennom v yugo-vostochnoy chasti Tikhogo okeana. Geroyu romana, Robinzonu Kruzo predstoit spastis' v korablekrushenii i zatem prozhit' v odinochestve na ostrove 28 let. Eto kniga o muzhestve i vole k zhizni, ob uporstve, mudrosti i optimizme. Predstavlyaem vam polnyy iskhodnyy perevod na russkiy yazyk, vypolnennyy talantlivymi...