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A Journal of the Plague Year by Daniel Defoe
Category: Classics | Series: Oxford World's Classics
'a Casement violently opened just over my Head, and a Woman gave three frightful Skreetches, and then cry'd, Oh! Death, Death, Death!' Purporting to be an eye-witness account, the Journal of the Plague Year is a record of the devastation wrought by the Great Plague of 1665 on the city of London. Defoe's ...Show more
A Journal of the Plague Year by Daniel Defoe
Category: Classics
all this went off again, and the weather proving cold, and the frost, which began in December, still continuing very severe even till near the end of February, attended with sharp though moderate winds, the bills decreased again, and the city grew healthy, and everybody began to look upon the danger as ...Show more
A Journal of the Plague Year by Daniel Defoe
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Penguin Classics Ser.
In 1665 the plague swept through London, claiming over 97,000 lives. Daniel Defoe was just five at the time of the plague, but he later called on his own memories, as well as his writing experience, to create this vivid chronicle of the epidemic and its victims. A Journal (1722) follows Defoe's fictiona ...Show more
Adventure Classics for Boys: Robinson Crusoe, Treasure Island & Kidnapped by Daniel Defoe, Robert Louis Stephenson
Category: Children's Classic Fiction
son Jim Hawkins finds a treasure map and sets off in search of buried treasure. But treacherous Long John Silver has other ideas for the treasure ...Kidnapped by Robert Louis Stevenson David Balfour leaves Scotland to seek his fame and fortune, but upon meeting a mysterious relative, dark family secrets ...Show more
General History of the Pyrates by DANIEL DEFOE
Category: History | Series: Dover Maritime Ser.
General History Of The Pyrates by Daniel Defoe - is a 1724 book published in Britain containing biographies of contemporary pirates, influenced shaping popular conceptions of pirates. It is the prime source for the biographies of many well known pirates.
Green Apple: Sherlock Holmes and the Red Circle + audio CD/CD-ROM by Defoe, Daniel
Category: Learning Material & Coursework (ELT) | Series: Green Apple Step One Ser.
Moll Flanders by Daniel Defoe
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Wordsworth Classics
With an Introduction and Notes by R.T.Jones, Honorary Fellow of the University of York. The novel follows the life of its eponymous heroine, Moll Flanders, through its many vicissitudes, which include her early seduction, careers in crime and prostitution, conviction for theft and transportation to the ...Show more
Moll Flanders by Daniel Defoe
Category: Classics | Series: Transatlantic Classics
This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfectionssuch as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, ...Show more
Moll Flanders by Daniel Defoe
Category: Collins Classics | Series: Collins Classics
'My true name is so well known in the Records or Registers at Newgate, and in the Old Bailey, and there are some things of such consequence still depending there, relating to my particular conduct, that it is not to be expected I should set my name or the account of my family to this work.' Born in ...Show more
Moll Flanders by Daniel Defoe
Category: Fiction
A tale that presents life in the prisons, alleyways and underworlds of eighteenth-century London.
Moll Flanders by Daniel Defoe
Category: Fiction | Series: Oxford World's Classics
'Twelve Year a Whore, fives times a Wife (whereof once to her own Brother), Twelve Year a Thief, Eight Year a Transported Felon in Virginia, at last grew Rich, liv'd Honest, and died a Penitent' So the title page of this extraordinary novel describes the career of the woman known as Moll Flanders, whose ...Show more