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A Journal of the Plague Year, written by a citizen who continued all the while in London by Daniel Defoe
A Journal of the Plague Year is a book by Daniel Defoe, first published in March 1722. It is an account of one man's experiences of the year 1665, in which the bubonic plague struck the city of London in what became known as the Great Plague of London, the last epidemic of plague in that city.
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(Excerpt): "The Friendly Daemon, or the Generous Apparition; being a true narrative of a miraculous cure, newly performed upon that famous deaf and dumb gentleman, Dr. Duncan Campbel, by a familiar spirit that appeared to him in white surplice, like a cathedral singing Boy."
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This novel follows the exploits of Bob Singleton, abducted as a child and raised by Gypsies. Making his way to the sea at age 12, Singleton sets sail for far-away lands, gaining and losing a fortune before turning to piracy, and ultimately finds redemption through the tutelage of a Quaker.
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"Robinson Crusoe" is a novel by Daniel Defoe, first published in 1719. A fictional autobiography, the first edition purported to be the work of the titular protagonist Robinson Crusoe and led its early readers to believe the book to be a real travelogue of Crueso's 28 years spent marooned on a remote tropical island near Venezuela, where he came across cannibals, captives, and mutineers before finally being rescued. The novel was well received when...
25) The Storm
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On the evening of 26th November 1703, a cyclone from the north Atlantic hammered into southern Britain at over seventy miles an hour, claiming the lives of over 8,000 people. Eyewitnesses reported seeing cows left stranded in the branches of trees and windmills ablaze from the friction of their whirling sails. For Defoe, bankrupt and just released from prison for seditious writings, the storm struck during one of his bleakest moments. But it also...
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(Excerpt): "A faithful and very surprising Account how Dickory Cronke, a Tinner's son, in the County of Cornwall, was born Dumb, and continued so for Fifty-eight years; and how, some days before he died, he came to his Speech; with Memoirs of his Life, and the Manner of his Death."
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Moll, which she emphasizes, is not her birth name, though she never does reveal what it was, is, raised until she is teenager in America by a foster mother. She then gets a job as a household servant where she is, loved by both, of the families’ sons. The oldest convinces her to "act as if, they were, married" in bed, but then is unwilling to marry her, and pawns her off on his younger brother. She is then, widowed, and leaves her children behind,...
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Defoe's "particular and diverting account of whatever is curious and worth observation" in his native country, told in a series of letters, was founded upon seventeen separate tours in the counties, and three larger tours through the whole country. He said he had "viewed the north part of England and the south part of Scotland five several times over," and he thought it worthwhile to note what he saw, because, "the fate of things gives a new face...
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Es liegt wohl an der Grausigkeit des Stoffes, dass das Die Pest zu London (Journal of the Grand Plague of London.—London 1723), von Defoe lange nicht übersetzt wurde und erst 1925 in der deutschen Fassung erschien. Wer es mit seinen, bis in die kleinsten und unbedeutendsten Einzelheiten gehenden Schilderungen durchgelesen hat, dürfte einigermaßen erstaunt sein, zu hören, dass es von einem 61jährigen Manne geschrieben wurde, der zurzeit der...
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Immensely readable history by the author of Robinson Crusoe incorporates the author's celebrated flair for journalistic detail, and represents the major source of information about piracy in the early 18th century. Defoe recounts the daring and bloody deeds of such outlaws as Edward Teach (alias Blackbeard), Captain Kidd, Mary Read, Anne Bonny, many others.
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This novel is a fictionalized account of one man's experiences of the year 1665, in which the Great Plague struck the city of London. Although it purports to have been written only a few years after the event, it actually was written in the years just prior to the book's first publication in March 1722. Defoe was only five years old in 1665, and the book itself was published under the initials 'H. F.' The novel probably was based on the journals of...
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If ever the story of any private man's adventures in the world were worth making public, and were acceptable when published, the Editor of this account thinks this will be so. The wonders of this man's life exceed all that (he thinks) is to be found extant; the life of one man being scarce capable of a greater variety. The story is told with modesty, with seriousness, and with a religious application of events to the uses to which wise men always...
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Dieser im Jahre 1720 erschienene Roman beschreibt das Leben einer fiktiven Person-Bob Singleton. Der Seefahrer und Pirat erzählt über sein Privatleben und seine Abenteuer in der Mitte des 17. Jahrhunderts. Sein Leben war von Anfang an recht ungewöhnlich und abenteuerlich: Als Kind reicher Eltern wird er von einer Diebin entführt, an eine Bettlerin weitergegeben und dann an eine Zigeunerin für 12 Shilling verkauft. Doch das Leben hatte für ihn...
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If ever the story of any private man's adventures in the world were worth making public, and were acceptable when published, the Editor of this account thinks this will be so. The wonders of this man's life exceed all that (he thinks) is to be found extant; the life of one man being scarce capable of a greater variety. The story is told with modesty, with seriousness, and with a religious application of events to the uses to which wise men always...
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After being kidnapped from his family as a child, Bob Singleton is raised by the gypsy who purchased him. As a young man, he quickly takes to life at sea, and begins a series of adventures, both on and off land, eventually becoming a successful pirate known as Captain Singleton. The Life, Adventures and Piracies of the Famous Captain Singleton is written much in the same style as author Daniel Defoe's other famous novels, including Robinson Crusoe...
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A fascinating look at the life of the notorious criminal John 'Jack' Sheppard, the original 'Jack the Lad', believed to have been ghostwritten by the author of Robinson Crusoe, Daniel Defoe. Sheppard was active in early 18th century London, and became famous for escaping from jail no less than four times.
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Dieser 1719 erschienene Roman unterscheidet sich deutlich von den Abenteuerromanen, die Daniel Defoe berühmt gemacht haben. Er handelt von der politischen Großwetterlage im gesamten Europa, wobei die zentrale Bedeutung die Lage im Deutschen Reich einnimmt. Es geht sowohl um den Krieg, als auch um die Herzoge, Könige und Edelmänner Europas. Weiter von den französischen und italienischen Angelegenheiten über die Interessen des schwedischen Königs...
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The book tells the story of Bob Singleton, who had been kidnapped as a boy from a good home and grew up with no real home. He came aboard a ship and eventually ended up being cast on an island with other crewmen. They managed to get to Africa and about the first half of the novel deals with the company's travel through Africa until they found a port from which they could get back to Europe. After their return there Singleton became member of another...