Daniel Defoe was an English trader, writer, pamphleteer and journalist. He is most famous for his novel «Robinson Crusoe», which is second only to the Bible in its number of translations. The third book about Crusoe, Serious Reflections During the Life and Surprising Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, is a collection of Daniel Defoe’s essays on moral topics. The name of Crusoe used to spur the public’s interest in this work.

Daniel Defoe was an English trader, writer, pamphleteer and journalist. He is most famous for his novel «Robinson Crusoe», which is second only to the Bible in its number of translations. Captain Singleton recounts the tale of Bob Singleton, a man who goes to sea at the age of twelve, makes a fortune, then loses it. Defoe here offers a searching exploration of society from the point of view of its outcasts.

Daniel Defoe was an English trader, writer, pamphleteer and journalist. He is most famous for his novel «Robinson Crusoe», which is second only to the Bible in its number of translations. A Tour Through the Whole Island of Great Britain is an account of author’s travels, first published in three volumes between 1724 and 1727. Daniel Defoe brings a lifetime’s experience to the tradition of travel writing as a businessman, a soldier, an economic journalist and a spy. This book is not only a beautifully written guide to Britain just before the industrial revolution; it is his deeply imaginative response to a brave new economic world.

Daniel Defoe was an English trader, writer, pamphleteer and journalist. He is most famous for his novel «Robinson Crusoe», which is second only to the Bible in its number of translations. A Tour Through the Whole Island of Great Britain is an account of author’s travels, first published in three volumes between 1724 and 1727. Daniel Defoe brings a lifetime’s experience to the tradition of travel writing as a businessman, a soldier, an economic journalist and a spy. This book is not only a beautifully written guide to Britain just before the industrial revolution; it is his deeply imaginative response to a brave new economic world.

Daniel Defoe was an English trader, writer, pamphleteer and journalist. He is most famous for his novel «Robinson Crusoe», which is second only to the Bible in its number of translations. A Tour Through the Whole Island of Great Britain is an account of author’s travels, first published in three volumes between 1724 and 1727. Daniel Defoe brings a lifetime’s experience to the tradition of travel writing as a businessman, a soldier, an economic journalist and a spy. This book is not only a beautifully written guide to Britain just before the industrial revolution; it is his deeply imaginative response to a brave new economic world.

A vivid satire on a dissolute society, Roxana is a devastating evocation of the ways in which vanity and ambition can corrupt the human soul. Beautiful and proud Roxana is terrified of being poor. When her husband leaves her penniless with five children, she must choose between being a virtuous beggar or a rich whore. Embarking on a career as a courtesan and kept woman, the glamour of her new existence soon becomes too enticing and Roxana passes from man to man in order to maintain her lavish society parties, luxurious clothes and amassed wealth. But this life comes at a cost, and she is fatally torn between the sinful prosperity she has become used to and the respectability she craves.

Daniel Defoe was an English trader, writer, journalist, pamphleteer and spy. He is most famous for his novel Robinson Crusoe, which is second only to the Bible in its number of translations. Memoirs of a Cavalier is a work of historical fiction by Daniel Defoe, set during the Thirty Years’ War and the English Civil Wars.

Colonel Jack is one of Daniel Defoe’s most entertaining, revealing, and complex works. It is the supposed autobiography of an English gentleman who begins life as a child of the London streets. He and his brothers are brought up as pickpockets and highwaymen, but Jack seeks to improve himself. Kidnapped and taken to America, he becomes first a slave, then an overseer on plantations in Maryland. Jack’s story is one of dramatic turns of fortune that ultimately lead to a life of law-abiding prosperity as a plantation owner.

Daniel Defoe was an English trader, writer, journalist, pamphleteer and spy. He is most famous for his novel Robinson Crusoe, which is second only to the Bible in its number of translations. Capitan Sinfleton recounts the tale of Bob Singleton, a man who goes to sea at the age of twelve, makes a fortune, then loses it. Defoe here offers a searching exploration of society from the point of view of its outcasts.

Daniel Defoe was an English trader, writer, pamphleteer and journalist. He is most famous for his novel «Robinson Crusoe», which is second only to the Bible in its number of translations. Memoirs of a Cavalier is a work of historical fiction, set during the Thirty Years’ War and the English Civil Wars. Daniel Defoe’s great talent as a writer was to speak in the voices of others. Such was the authenticity of this memoir of a 17th-century soldier of fortune that for over half a century it was considered to be genuine.