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Daniel Defoe was an English trader, writer, pamphleteer and journalist. He is most famous for his novel "Robinson Crusoe", which is second only to the Bible in its number of translations. In A Journal of the Plague Year Defoe vividly chronicles the progress of the epidemic during The Great Plague in London, in 1665. The author follows his fictional narrator through a city transformed - the streets and alleyways deserted, the houses of death with crosses daubed on their doors, the dead-carts on...
| Автор | Daniel Defoe |
| Жанр | Классическая зарубежная проза на английском языке, Художественная литература на английском языке |
Daniel Defoe was an English trader, writer, journalist, pamphleteer and spy. He is most famous for his novel Robinson Crusoe, which is second only to the Bible in its number of translations. Memoirs of a Cavalier is a work of historical fiction by Daniel Defoe, set during the Thirty Years' War and the English Civil Wars.
| Автор | Daniel Defoe |
| Жанр | Классическая зарубежная проза на английском языке, Художественная литература на английском языке |
Даниэль Дефо - это знаменитый английский писатель и публицист рубежа XVII-XVIII вв., чьи произведения до сих пор остаются самыми читаемыми и любимыми но всему миру.Роман "Радости и горести знаменитой Молль Флендерс" повествует о бедной девушке, родившейся в Ньюгетской тюрьме и решившей вопреки всему стать богатой. Необычная судьба сильной женщины со взлётами и падениями оставит неизгладимый след в душе каждого читателя...Читайте зарубежную литературу в оригинале!
| Автор | Daniel Defoe |
| Жанр | Классическая зарубежная проза на английском языке, Художественная литература на английском языке |
On the evening of 26th November 1703, a cyclone from the north Atlantic hammered into southern Britain at over seventy miles an hour, claiming the lives of over 8,000 people. For Defoe, bankrupt and just released from prison for seditious writings, the storm struck during one of his bleakest moments. But it also furnished him with the material for his first book, and in his powerful depiction of private suffering and individual survival played out against a backdrop of public calamity.
| Автор | Daniel Defoe |
| Жанр | Классическая зарубежная проза на английском языке, Художественная литература на английском языке |
"Serious Reflections During the Life and Surprising Adventures of Robinson Crusoe. With His Vision of the Angelick World".
Daniel Defoe was an English trader, writer, journalist, pamphleteer and spy. He wrote many political tracts and often was in trouble with the authorities, including prison time. The third book about Robinson Crousoe is a collection of Daniel Defoe's essays on moral topics. The name of Crusoe used to spur the public's interest in this work.
| Автор | Daniel Defoe |
| Жанр | Классическая зарубежная проза на английском языке, Художественная литература на английском языке |
Daniel Defoe brings a lifetime's experience to the tradition of travel writing as a businessman, soldier, economic journalist and spy, and his Tour Through the Whole Island of Great Britain is an invaluable source of social and economic history. This book is not only a beautifully written guide to Britain just before the industrial revolution. It is his deeply imaginative response to a brave new economic world.
| Автор | Daniel Defoe |
| Жанр | Классическая зарубежная проза на английском языке, Художественная литература на английском языке |
Written in a time when criminal biographies enjoyed great success, Daniel Defoe's Moll Flanders details the life of the irresistible Moll and her struggles through poverty and sin in search of property and power. Born in Newgate Prison to a picaresque mother, Moll propels herself through marriages, periods of success and destitution, and a trip to the New World and back, only to return to the place of her birth as a popular prostitute and brilliant thief. Daniel Defoe created a female...
| Автор | Daniel Defoe |
| Жанр | Классическая зарубежная проза на английском языке, Художественная литература на английском языке |
Daniel Defoe was an English trader, writer, journalist, pamphleteer and spy. General scholarly opinion is that Defoe really did think of the Devil as a participant in world history. His view is that of an 18th-century Presbyterian - he blames the Devil for the Crusades and sees him as close to Europe's Catholic powers.
| Автор | Daniel Defoe |
| Жанр | Классическая зарубежная проза на английском языке, Художественная литература на английском языке |
Daniel Defoe was an English trader, writer, pamphleteer and journalist. He is most famous for his novel "Robinson Crusoe", which is second only to the Bible in its number of translations. A Tour Through the Whole Island of Great Britain is an account of author's travels, first published in three volumes between 1724 and 1727. Daniel Defoe brings a lifetime's experience to the tradition of travel writing as a businessman, a soldier, an economic journalist and a spy. This book is not only a...
| Автор | Daniel Defoe |
| Жанр | Классическая зарубежная проза на английском языке, Художественная литература на английском языке |
The Further Adventures of Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe finds Crusoe bored with his prosperity and consumed by an irresistible longing to return to the island he left many years before. Along with his trusty servant and companion, Friday, he embarks on a harrowing high-seas adventure that takes them to China, over the Russian steppes, and into Siberia. The story is speculated to be partially based on Moscow embassy secretary Adam Brand's journal detailing the embassy's journey from Moscow to...
| Автор | Daniel Defoe |
| Жанр | Классическая зарубежная проза на английском языке, Художественная литература на английском языке |
Daniel Defoe was an English trader, writer, pamphleteer and journalist. He is most famous for his novel "Robinson Crusoe", which is second only to the Bible in its number of translations. Captain Singleton recounts the tale of Bob Singleton, a man who goes to sea at the age of twelve, makes a fortune, then loses it. Defoe here offers a searching exploration of society from the point of view of its outcasts.
| Автор | Daniel Defoe |
| Жанр | Классическая зарубежная проза на английском языке, Художественная литература на английском языке |
Даниэль Дефо - знаменитый английский писатель и публицист рубежа XVII-XVIII вв., чьи произведения до сих пор остаются самыми читаемыми и любимыми по всему миру.
"Дневник чумного года" - своего рода страшная антиутопия, потрясшая современников холодной и даже немного чёрной ироничностью. Перед читателем предстаёт дневник очевидца Чумы и всех её страшных последствий... Читайте зарубежную литературу в оригинале!
| Автор | Daniel Defoe |
| Жанр | Классическая зарубежная проза на английском языке, Художественная литература на английском языке |
John Sheppard was a notorious English robber and thief of early 18th-century London. Born into a poor family, he was apprenticed as a carpenter but took to theft and burglary in 1723. He was arrested and imprisoned five times in 1724 but escaped from prison, making him a notorious public figure, and wildly popular with the poorer classes.
| Автор | Daniel Defoe |
| Жанр | Классическая зарубежная проза на английском языке, Художественная литература на английском языке |
Young Robinson Crusoe wants to see the world, but a storm brings him to an island where he is alone and danger is everywhere. Years pass before he meets a friend who will help him to find his home again. Written in 1719, Robinson Crusoe is one of the most famous and bestloved adventure stories ever told.
| Автор | Daniel Defoe |
Daniel Defoe brings a lifetime's experience to the tradition of travel writing as a businessman, soldier, economic journalist and spy, and his Tour Through the Whole Island of Great Britain is an invaluable source of social and economic history. This book is not only a beautifully written guide to Britain just before the industrial revolution. It is his deeply imaginative response to a brave new economic world.
| Автор | Daniel Defoe |
| Жанр | Классическая зарубежная проза на английском языке, Художественная литература на английском языке |
Following the success of Robinson Crusoe, Daniel Defoe composed a further tale of high adventure at sea. The result was this lesser-known work, a story of pirate life. In response to an alleged letter accusing him of the worst possible deeds, Captain Avery pens a reply seeking to exonerate himself from all such charges. He sees fit to provide a full account of life as captain of a pirate ship.
| Автор | Daniel Defoe |
| Жанр | Классическая зарубежная проза на английском языке, Художественная литература на английском языке |
Daniel Defoe was an English trader, writer, pamphleteer and journalist. He is most famous for his novel "Robinson Crusoe", which is second only to the Bible in its number of translations. A Tour Through the Whole Island of Great Britain is an account of author's travels, first published in three volumes between 1724 and 1727. Daniel Defoe brings a lifetime's experience to the tradition of travel writing as a businessman, a soldier, an economic journalist and a spy. This book is not only a...
| Автор | Daniel Defoe |
| Жанр | Классическая зарубежная проза на английском языке, Художественная литература на английском языке |
Daniel Defoe was an English trader, writer, pamphleteer and journalist. He is most famous for his novel "Robinson Crusoe", which is second only to the Bible in its number of translations. The third book about Crusoe, Serious Reflections During the Life and Surprising Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, is a collection of Daniel Defoe's essays on moral topics. The name of Crusoe used to spur the public's interest in this work.
| Автор | Daniel Defoe |
| Жанр | Классическая зарубежная проза на английском языке, Художественная литература на английском языке |