Daniel Defoe
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Defoe's gripping fictionalized account of the plague that racked seventeenth-century London
The year is 1665 and the plague has come to London. The air is heavy with death, the body count is rising, and the death carts are filling quickly. Our unflinching eyewitness narrator, HF, recounts the gruesome realities of life in a city overrun by the Black Death. Terror and hysteria seize the city as disease runs rampant.
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The year is 1665 and the plague has come to London. The air is heavy with death, the body count is rising, and the death carts are filling quickly. Our unflinching eyewitness narrator, HF, recounts the gruesome realities of life in a city overrun by the Black Death. Terror and hysteria seize the city as disease runs rampant.
Blending fiction...
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Born in Newgate prison and abandoned six months later, Moll's drive to find and hold on to a secure place in society propels her through incest, adultery, bigamy, prostitution and a resourceful career as a thief ('the greatest Artist of my time') before she is apprehended and returned to Newgate.
If Moll Flanders is on one level a Puritan's tale of sin and repentance, through self-made, self-reliant Moll its rich subtext conveys all the paradoxes
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Considerado una de las cumbres de la literatura inglesa de todos los tiempos, el «Diario del año de la peste» es un escalofriante relato novelado en el que se describen con crudeza los horribles acontecimientos que coincidieron con la epidemia de peste que asoló Londres y sus alrededores entre 1664 y 1666. Daniel Defoe, con precisión de cirujano, se convierte en testigo de los comportamientos humanos más heroicos pero también de los más...
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Daniel Defoe has woven a fantastic tale of the adventures of Robinson Crusoe, a young lad form the City of York in England who yearns for the life of the sea. His father wants Robinson to attend law school and get a good education, but Robinson decides otherwise. Follow Robinson as he survives pirates, shipwrecks and cannibals. Beautifully illustrated, this story is a classic you will enjoy and treasure.
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One of the most determined, energetic, and lusty heroines in all of English literature, Daniel Defoe's Moll Flanders will do anything to avoid poverty. Born in Newgate Prison, she was for twelve years a whore, five times a wife (once to her own brother), twelve years a thief, and eight years a transported felon in Virginia before finally escaping from the life of immorality and wickedness imposed on her by society. She is as much a survivor and just...
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18-year-old Robinson Crusoe runs away from home to travel the world in 1659, and ends up shipwrecked on a deserted island where he lives for more than twenty-eight years, facing many dangers with a native he rescues from cannibals, and calls Friday. Written in graphic-novel format.
12) Robinson Crusoe
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During one of his several adventurous voyages in the 1600s, an Englishman becomes the sole survivor of a shipwreck and lives for nearly thirty years on a deserted island.
13) Robinson Crusoe
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An abridged version of the tale of Englishman Robinson Crusoe, who, after becoming the sole survivor of a 1659 shipwreck, lives on a deserted island for more than twenty-eight years.
15) Robinson Crusoe
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A graphic novel adaptation of Daniel Defoe's classic tale about an adventuring Englishman who is the sole survivor of a shipwreck and washes up on a seemingly deserted island where he must learn to survive. Presented in Spanish.
16) Robinson Crusoe
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A graphic novel version of Daniel Defoe's classic tale, in which an Englishman becomes the sole survivor of a shipwreck and lives nearly thirty years on a desert island before being rescued.