A Journal of the Plague Year. Written by a Citizen who continued all the while in London.

A Journal of the Plague Year

After being kidnapped from his family as a child, Bob Singleton is raised by the gypsy who purchased him. As a young man, he quickly takes to life at sea, and begins a series of adventures, both on and off land, eventually becoming a successful pirate known as Captain Singleton. The Life, Adventures and Piracies of the Famous Captain Singleton is written much in the same style as author Daniel Defoe's other famous novels, including Robinson Crusoe and Journal of the Plague Year, mixing accounts of adventure with well-researched economic and practical details that ground the story in the reality of its 18th century setting. HarperPerennial Classics brings great works of literature to life in digital format, upholding the highest standards in ebook production and celebrating reading in all its forms. Look for more titles in the HarperPerennial Classics collection to build your digital library.

The Life and Adventures and Piracies of the Famous Captain Singleton

"Ce sauvage, grand garçon bien découplé, était parfaitement proportionné et son air mâle me parut dénué de férocité. Après avoir reposé pendant une demi-heure, il vint à moi en courant, et, se jetant à mes pieds avec gratitude, renouvela son serment de fidélité en posant mon pied sur sa tête. Je lui donnai le nom de Vendredi en mémoire du jour où je l'avais sauvé..." Robinson Crusoé, un jeune Anglais d'York, n'a qu'un désir : prendre le large. Mais, après un terrible naufrage dont il est le seul survivant, il se retrouve sur une île déserte. Il y restera 28 ans... Le premier des romans d'aventures et l'un des plus formidables du genre.

Robinson Crusoé

Inspiré de l'aventure réelle d'un marin écossais, le roman que Defoë fait paraître en 1719 connaît un succès foudroyant qui ne s'est plus démenti.

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Robinson crusoe

Robinson Crusoe is a novel by Daniel Defoe, first published on 25 April 1719. The first edition credited the work's protagonist Robinson Crusoe as its author, leading many readers to believe he was a real person and the book a travelogue of true incidents.Epistolary, confessional, and didactic in form, the book is presented as an autobiography of the title character (whose birth name is Robinson Kreutznaer), a castaway who spends 28 years on a remote tropical desert island near Trinidad, encountering cannibals, captives, and mutineers, before ultimately being rescued. The story has been thought to be based on the life of Alexander Selkirk, a Scottish castaway who lived for four years on a Pacific island called "Más a Tierra", now part of Chile, which was renamed Robinson Crusoe Island in 1966.Despite its simple narrative style, Robinson Crusoe was well received in the literary world and is often credited as marking the beginning of realistic fiction as a literary genre. It is generally seen as a contender for the first English novel. Before the end of 1719, the book had already run through four editions, and it has gone on to become one of the most widely published books in history, spawning so many imitations, not only in literature but also in film, television and radio, that its name is used to define a genre, the Robinsonade.

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

Au XVIIème siècle, un jeune garçon, Robinson Crusoé, quitte l'Autriche et sa famille pour accomplir son rêve : devenir marin. Mais le navire sur lequel il s'embarque subit une tempête et Robinson se réveille sur une île déserte, seul survivant de tout l'équipage. Armé seulement de son courage, il va trouver les moyens de sa survie. Mais la compagnie des hommes lui manque. Jusqu'au jour où il découvre un jeune homme, Vendredi, qui deviendra son compagnon.

Robinson Crusoé: Les Grands Classiques

La fortune litteraire de Robinson Crusoe a ete si prodigieuse que le nom de l'auteur, aux yeux du public, a presque disparu sous sa gloire. Si Daniel de Foe avait eu la precaution de faire suivre sa signature du titre qu'il avait a la celebrite, la Peste de Londres, Roxana, le Colonel Jacques, le Capitaine Singleton et Moll Flanders auraient fait leur chemin dans le monde. Mais il n'en a pas ete ainsi. Pareille aventure etait arrivee a Cervantes, apres avoir ecrit Don Quichotte. Car on ne lut guere ses admirables nouvelles, son theatre, sans compter Galathee et Persiles y Sigismunde. Cervantes et Daniel de Foe ne composerent leurs grandes uvres qu'apres avoir depasse l'age mur. Tous deux avaient mene auparavant une vie tres active: Cervantes, longtemps prisonnier, ayant vu les hommes et les choses, la guerre et la paix, mutile d'une main. De Foe, prisonnier aussi a Newgate, expose au pilori, mele au brassage des affaires politiques au milieu d'une revolution; l'un et l'autre harceles par des ennuis d'argent, l'un par des dettes, l'autre par des faillites successives; l'un et l'autre energiques, resistants, doues d'une extraordinaire force de travail. Et, ainsi que Don Quichotte contient l'histoire ideale de Cervantes transposee dans la fiction, Robinson Crusoe est l'histoire de Daniel de Foe au milieu des difficultes de la vie.

A Journal of the Plague Year

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