Author : Daniel Defoe
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 444 pages
File Size : 41,85 MB
Release : 1991-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780300049800
Observations on the principal cities, ports and geographical features, customs, manners, and inhabitants of early eighteenth-century Britain
Author : Daniel Defoe
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 157 pages
File Size : 39,13 MB
Release : 2023-08-27
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 3387007027
Reproduction of the original. The publishing house Megali specialises in reproducing historical works in large print to make reading easier for people with impaired vision.
Author : Robert McCrum
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 43,66 MB
Release : 2018
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781903385838
Beginning in 1611 with the King James Bible and ending in 2014 with Elizabeth Kolbert's 'The Sixth Extinction', this extraordinary voyage through the written treasures of our culture examines universally-acclaimed classics such as Pepys' 'Diaries', Charles Darwin's 'The Origin of Species', Stephen Hawking's 'A Brief History of Time' and a whole host of additional works --
Author : Bill Bryson
Publisher : HarperCollins
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 38,29 MB
Release : 2015-06-02
Category : Travel
ISBN : 0062417436
Before New York Times bestselling author Bill Bryson wrote The Road to Little Dribbling, he took this delightfully irreverent jaunt around the unparalleled floating nation of Great Britain, which has produced zebra crossings, Shakespeare, Twiggie Winkie’s Farm, and places with names like Farleigh Wallop and Titsey.
Author : Daniel Defoe
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 473 pages
File Size : 22,77 MB
Release : 2005-08-25
Category : Travel
ISBN : 0141962356
Britain in the early eighteenth century: an introduction that is both informative and imaginative, reliable and entertaining. To the tradition of travel writing Daniel Defoe brings a lifetime's experience as a businessman, soldier, economic journalist and spy, and his Tour (1724-6) is an invaluable source of social and economic history. But this book is far more than a beautifully written guide to Britain just before the industrial revolution, for Defoe possessed a wild, inventive streak that endows his work with astonishing energy and tension, and the Tour is his deeply imaginative response to a brave new economic world. By employing his skills as a chronicler, a polemicist and a creative writer keenly sensitive to the depredations of time, Defoe more than achieves his aim of rendering 'the present state' of Britain.
Author : Daniel Defoe
Publisher :
Page : 52 pages
File Size : 14,44 MB
Release : 1708
Category : Great Britain
ISBN :
Author : Daniel Defoe
Publisher : Strelbytskyy Multimedia Publishing
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 11,92 MB
Release : 2020-01-14
Category : Fiction
ISBN :
Almost 300 years ago this fascinating novel was published with probably the most long title: The Life and Strange Surprizing 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, Wherein All the Men Perished but Himself. With an Account how he was at last as Strangely Deliver’d by Pyrates. Written by Himself. For hundreds of years this book impresses the imagination by displaying of courage, ingenuity, vitality of the person, caught in such a binding that it is difficult to imagine. But still it is so exciting to imagine, while reading a book in a cozy room. Pretty illustrations by Vladislav Kolomoets provide you with new impressions from reading this legendary story.
Author : Celia Fiennes
Publisher :
Page : 366 pages
File Size : 45,83 MB
Release : 1888
Category : England
ISBN :
Author : H. E. Marshall
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 572 pages
File Size : 21,78 MB
Release : 2013-02-20
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 1625583745
Our Island Story is the "history" of England up to Queen Victoria's Death. Marshall used these stories to tell her children about their homeland, Great Britain. To add to the excitement, she mixed in a bit of myth as well as a few legends.
Author : Richard West
Publisher :
Page : 472 pages
File Size : 39,98 MB
Release : 1997
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN :
Daniel Defoe's life was packed with incident and drama. Born in the year of the Restoration of the Monarchy after the English Civil War, he remained a nonconformist throughout his life, actively rebelled against James II, travelled the country as a spy for King William and Queen Mary, worked in Scotland on active behalf of the historic Union of Scotland and England, helped launch the South Sea Company, was bankrupted frequently as a businessman, was imprisoned for libel and debt, and died a pauper.
