The novel is a fictionalised account of one man's experiences of the year 1665, in which the Great Plague struck the city of London. The book is told roughly chronologically, though without sections or chapter headings.

Journal de l'Année de la Peste

Roxana (1724), Defoe's last and darkest novel, is the autobiography of a woman who has traded her virtue, at first for survival, and then for fame and fortune. Its narrator tells the story of her own 'wicked' life as the mistress of rich and powerful men. A resourceful adventuress, she is also an unforgiving analyst of her own susceptibilities, who tells us of the price she pays for her successes. Endowed with many seductive skills, she is herself seduced: by money, by dreams of rank, and by the illusion that she can escape her own past. Unlike Defoe's other penitent anti-heroes, however, she fails to triumph over these weaknesses. The novel's drama lies not only in the heroine's 'vast variety of fortunes', but in her attempts to understand the sometimes bitter lessons of her life as a 'Fortunate Mistress'. Defoe's achievement was to invent, in Roxana, a gripping story-teller as well as a gripping story.

Lady Roxana

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

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.

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Histoire du Diable

The Life and Strange Surprising 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, where in all the Men perished but Himself. With An Account how he was at last as strangely deliver'd by Pyrates) is a novel by Daniel Defoe, first published in 1719 and sometimes regarded as the first novel in English. The book is a fictional autobiography of the title character, an English castaway who spends 28 years on a remote tropical island near Venezuela, encountering Native Americans, captives, and mutineers before being rescued. This device, presenting an account of supposedly factual events, is known as a "false document" and gives a realistic frame story.

Robinson Crusoe

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...

Mary Read (1690-1720) et Anne Bonny (vers 1705-1782) sont les deux femmes pirates les plus célèbres de l’histoire. Leur épopée a traversé les siècles et a largement imprégné l’imaginaire collectif. Daniel Defoe fut le premier à raconter les vies mouvementées de ces « louves de mer » (Zoé Valdès) dans Histoire générale des plus fameux pirates, sous le pseudonyme du « Capitaine Johnson ».

Femmes pirates

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

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