Ce volume contientMoll Flanders - Madame Veal - Mémoires d'un cavalier - Vie du capitaine Singleton - Histoire et vie du colonel Jacque - Lady Roxane

Moll Flanders, Mme. Veal, Memories D'un Cavalier, Vie Du  Capitaine Singleton, Etc.

Robinson Crusoe is an Englishman from the town of York in the seventeenth century, the youngest son of a merchant of German origin. Encouraged by his father to study law, Crusoe expresses his wish to go to sea instead. His family is against Crusoe going out to sea, and his father explains that it is better to seek a modest, secure life for oneself. Initially, Robinson is committed to obeying his father, but he eventually succumbs to temptation and embarks on a ship bound for London with a friend. When a storm causes the near deaths of Crusoe and his friend, the friend is dissuaded from sea travel, but Crusoe still goes on to set himself up as merchant on a ship leaving London. This trip is financially successful, and Crusoe plans another, leaving his early profits in the care of a friendly widow. The second voyage does not prove as fortunate: the ship is seized by Moorish pirates, and Crusoe is enslaved to a potentate in the North African town of Sallee. While on a fishing expedition, he and a slave boy break free and sail down the African coast. A kindly Portuguese captain picks them up, buys the slave boy from Crusoe, and takes Crusoe to Brazil. In Brazil, Crusoe establishes himself as a plantation owner and soon becomes successful. Eager for slave labor and its economic advantages, he embarks on a slave-gathering expedition to West Africa but ends up shipwrecked off of the coast of Trinidad...

Robinson Crusoe

Giunta in Inghilterra con i suoi genitori dopo aver abbandonato la città natale di Poiter, la bella Roxana sposa giovanissima un ricco birraio. Ma dopo alcuni anni di vita brillante, suo marito la abbandona e fugge all'estero per evitare la bancarotta. Ridotta in estrema povertà, Roxana affida i figli ai suoceri e, con la complicità della sua giovane e viziosa servetta Amy, diventa l'amante del proprio padrone di casa. La coppia si trasferisce a Parigi, dove Roxana diventa presto famosa per la sua bellezza. Ma dopo l'assassinio del suo amante, la donna baratta la propria virtù per la fama e la ricchezza e cade nelle braccia di un principe reale, con il quale si reca in Italia per proseguire, tra alterne fortune, la sua carriera di spregiudicata cortigiana. Narrato in forma autobiografica, "Lady Roxana" è la storia di una donna piena di ambizioni, dall'energia indomabile e dalla vitalità straordinaria, che rifiuta la propria condizione sociale, arrivando fino al crimine, alla menzogna e al carcere pur di raggiungere la ricchezza. A lungo trascurato e messo in ombra da "Le avventure di Moll Flanders", suo più fortunato predecessore, questo romanzo di Defoe è oggi apprezzato per il suo giusto valore, in particolare per la sua complessità psicologica e morale. Pur essendo stato scritto circa trecento anni fa, "Lady Roxana" riesce ancora oggi ad appassionare e scandalizzare il lettore, in particolare per le sue tematiche incentrate sull'indigenza, la prostituzione, l'abbandono dei figli e la vivace dissolutezza dei personaggi. La presente versione corrisponde alla prima edizione del testo datata 1724, cioè all'opera originale così come concepita dall'autore, senza divisione in capitoli. Successivamente, nel 1745, l'editore modificherà il testo per aggiungervi un finale più edificante. Completano questa edizione le illustrazioni di John Ward Dunsmore.

Lady Roxana - . La concubina fortunata. Edizione illustrata

Robinson Crusoé - Tome 2

Daniel Defoe, de son vrai nom Daniel Foe, est un aventurier, commerçant, agent politique et écrivain anglais, né vers 1660 à Londres et mort en avril 1731 dans la Cité de Londres. Il est notamment connu pour être l'auteur de Robinson Crusoé et de Heurs et Malheurs de la fameuse Moll Flanders.

Robinson Crusoé - Tome II

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La Vie et les Aventures de Robinson Crusoe

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La Vie Et Les Avantures Surprenantes de Robinson Crusoe

Le roman est une reflexion sur les dangers d'une ambition effrenee et les conflits entre cette ambition et les lois civiles et morales. C'est aussi un manifeste feministe, car il exalte la liberte d'une femme jusqu'a la licence. Cependant, Defoe prend garde de temperer cette tendance en faisant de son heroine une criminelle: en un ultime desir de respectabilite, Roxana epouse un titre de noblesse et rencontre peu apres sa fille qui a ete temoin de ses frasques passees. Alors, afin de ne pas voir son nouveau statut reduit a neant, elle laisse sans vergogne ni remords son alter ego Amy la supprimer.

Lady Roxana

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Moll Flanders, Mme. Veal, Memories D'un Cavalier, Vie Du Capitaine Singleton, Etc.

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