Robinson Crusoé, Volume 1

"Bringt eure Toten raus!" 

Dieser von Glockenläuten begleitete Ruf der in den Straßen umherfahrenden Leichensammler hat Leser über die Jahrhunderte mit kaltem Grauen erfüllt. 

Daniel Defoe, der bekannte Schriftsteller und Autor von "Robinson Crusoe", war zur Zeit der in den Jahren 1664/65 grassierenden Pest gerade einmal fünf Jahre alt, griff jedoch 1722 die Erinnerungen der Überlebenden auf, um diese realistische Chronik der Epidemie und ihrer Opfer zu erstellen. Der fiktive Erlebnisbericht folgt Defoes Erzähler, der den verheerenden Fortschritt der Seuche durch die Straßen von London hautnah miterlebt. London wird bald zur Geisterstadt. Einige Straßen sind nahezu ausgestorben, aus den noch bewohnten Häusern sind die Töne menschlichen Leidens zu vernehmen. Derweil nutzen Quacksalber und Beutelschneider die Gunst der Stunde, um die Not der Menschen in klingende Münze zu verwandeln. Jeder Bürger hat seine eigene schreckliche Geschichte zu erzählen und versucht, den Wahnsinn irgendwie zu überleben - und doch werden viele von ihnen sich am Ende trotz aller Vorsichtsmaßnahmen in die Liste der beinahe hunderttausend Pestopfer einreihen ...

Die Pest zu London

Set against the backdrop of the Great Plague of London in the seventeenth century, Daniel Defoe's classic novel, A Journal of the Plague Year, continues to be distinguished for its intense, honest, and realistic portrayal of the times. Over the course of a single year, the novel's narrator examines events both political and personal, and comments on the social, political, economic, and human impact of the epidemic. Although originally read as non-fiction when it was published, A Journal of the Plague Year has over time been proven to be fiction, but is remarkable for its use of factual statistical analysis of the plague, and specific references to actual neighbourhoods and individual stories. 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.

A Journal Of The Plague Year

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

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.

Robinson Crusoé

This special collection brings together Daniel Defoe's two adventure-filled novels about the now famous character, Robinson Crusoe, and Peter Longueville's castaway story, The English Hermit. In The Life and Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, the titular character finds himself the sole survivor of a shipwreck and is marooned on an island, along with an escaped prisoner he names "Friday, " for twenty-seven years. After dangerous encounters, the pair is rescued and returns home to England. But Crusoe cannot forget the island where he spent most of his life, and vows to return in The Farther Adventures of Robinson Crusoe. In The English Hermit, while searching for fresh food on a seemingly uninhabited island, Edward Dorrington and his crew stumble upon a meticulously crafted village. 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 Ultimate Robinson Crusoe Bundle

Robinson Crusoe

Le jeune Robinson Crusoé a toujours rêvé d'aventure. Malgré la volonté de ses parents, il décide donc de quitter l'Angleterre et se fait engager comme marin. Il va mener alors une existence passionnante et mouvementée faite de périples vers des terres inconnues, de rencontres avec des peuplades fascinantes mais aussi d'affrontements avec des pirates ! Jusqu'au jour où son navire fait naufrage.À partir de 8 ans

Robinson Crusoé, Volume 1

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