Robinson Crusoe Reader with Audio CD

Roxana est cense etre l'autobiographie de la belle mademoiselle Beleau, fille de refugies protestants, elevee en Angleterre et mariee au fils d'un brasseur. Ce bon-a-rien dilapide ses biens et abandonne sa femme, alors agee de vingt-deux ans, et ses cinq enfants. Pour survivre et nourrir sa famille, Roxana se tourne vers la prostitution et devient la maitresse du proprietaire de la demeure ou elle residait avec son mari, puis se lie a de nombreux aristocrates et hommes d'affaires anglais, francais et hollandais.

Lady Roxana

«I was born in the year 1632, in the city of York, of a good family, though not of that country, my father being a foreigner of Bremen, who settled first at Hull. He got a good estate by merchandise, and leaving off his trade lived afterward at York,...» 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 thirty years on a remote tropical island near Trinidad, encountering cannibals, captives, and mutineers before being rescued.
Taken as non-fiction, the details of Robinson Crusoe are given at the start of the novel. The story has since been perceived to be based on the life of Alexander Selkirk, a Scottish castaway who lived for four years on the Pacific island of Chile.

Robinson Crusoe

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 'It happen'd one Day about Noon going towards my Boat, I was exceedingly surpriz'd with the Print of a Man's naked Foot on the Shore.'

 Shipwrecked in a storm at sea, Robinson Crusoe is washed up on a remote and desolate island. As he struggles to piece together a life for himself, Crusoe's physical, moral and spiritual values are tested to the limit. For 24 years he remains in solitude and learns to tame and master the island, until he finally comes across another human being. Considered a classic literary masterpiece, and frequently interpreted as a comment on the British Imperialist approach at the time, Defoe's fable was and still is revered as the very first English novel.

This purportedly true story, recorded by English author Daniel Defoe, tells of the strange life of Moll Flanders, a woman who lives in sin and wickedness, surviving only on her beauty, cleverness, and deceit. Finding herself in the role of mistress or kept woman, or alternatively married to a man that she does not love, Moll seduces various men and resorts to thievery to pay her way before eventually repenting for her sins at the end of her life. Moll Flanders was one of Defoe's later works, written during a prolific period during which he published other famous works including The Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, Roxana, and A Journal of the Plague Year. Due to the somewhat scandalous nature of its content, Moll Flanders did not experience the immediate success that other of Defoe's works did upon publication, but has since become recognized as a significant literary achievement. 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.

Moll Flanders

Robinson En 1632, je naquis a York, d'une bonne famille, mais qui n'etait point de ce pays. Mon pere, originaire de Breme, etabli premierement a Hull, apres avoir acquis de l'aisance et s'etre retire du commerce, etait venu resider a York, ou il s'etait allie, par ma mere, a la famille Robinson, une des meilleures de la province. C'est a cette alliance que je devais mon double nom de Robinson-Kreutznaer; mais, aujourd'hui, par une corruption de mots assez commune en Angleterre, on nous nomme, nous nous nommons et signons Crusoe. C'est ainsi que mes compagnons m'ont toujours appele."

Publié la même année que Robinson Crus?, (1719), Le Roi des pirates, de Daniel Def?, relate les aventures très peu véridiques d'un forban très réel, lui : le capitaine Avery. Aussi fameux qu'insaisissable, il défraie la chronique, s'attaquant aussi bien aux navires de la Compagnie des Indes qu'à ceux du Grand Mogol, dont il capture la fille. Le bruit court qu'à l'autre bout du monde, sur l'île de Madagascar, s'est constituée une colonie de pirates dont il s'est proclamé roi. Épopée flamboyante ? Nullement. Ce pirate a l'amour du travail bien fait, le souci des comptes bien tenus, l'obsession de la sécurité, bref, la mentalité d'un négociant consciencieux. Daniel Defoe pose ici le problème d'un certain rapport à l'actualité. Dans cette fausse autobiographie, le pirate-mercanti n'est pas pris au sérieux. Pas plus que les écrivains ou journalistes peu scrupuleux qui exploitent le goût du sensationnel. L'auteur s'amuse. Il parodie les vies de criminels célèbres, démonte le mécanisme des récits à scandale et joue avec les règles de la fiction qui permettent de mentir en toute impunité : "Cette relation (...) ressemble plus à l'histoire du capitaine Avery qu'aucune autre publication à ce jour. Et s'il n'est pas prouvé que le capitaine a écrit lui-même ces lettres, l'éditeur affirme que nul autre que le capitaine lui-même ne pourra jamais les rectifier"...

Le roi des pirates

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, ou, l'Heureuse Maîtresse

Partez sur la trace des grands aventuriers romanesques travers douze textes emblématiques du roman d'aventure choisis parmi les oeuvres d'Arthur Conan Doyle, Joseph Conrad, Daniel Defoe, Homère, Victor Hugo, Rudyard Kipling, Gaston Leroux, Herman Melville, Edgar Allan Poe, Henry Rider Haggard, Mark Twain et Jules Verne. Laissez vous surprendre par cette anthologie, véritable invitation au voyage et au rêve, dans laquelle des monuments de la littérature s'entremêlent à des textes méconnus, mais. passionnants.

Robinson Crusoe Reader with Audio CD

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