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  • ROBINSON CRUSOE, TOLD TO THE CHILDREN
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    ROBINSON CRUSOE, TOLD TO THE CHILDREN
    DANIEL DEFOE
    Excerpt: "When Defoe wrote Robinson Crusoe, nearly two hundred years ago, boys had more time on their hands, fewer books and fewer games than they have now, and they, as well as their fathers, read it and loved it. And when your father and I were boys—though that is rather less than two hundred years ago—we too used often to read it. But boys nowadays do not seem to read Robins...

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  • THE HISTORY OF THE PYRATES VOL I - VOL II
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    THE HISTORY OF THE PYRATES VOL I - VOL II
    DANIEL DEFOE
    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. (Excerpt from Goodre...

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  • HISTORY OF THE GREAT PLAGUE IN LONDON
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    HISTORY OF THE GREAT PLAGUE IN LONDON
    DANIEL DEFOE
    In 1665, the Great Plague swept through London, claiming nearly 100,000 lives. In A Journal of the Plague Year, Defoe vividly chronicles the progress of the epidemic. We follow his fictional narrator through a city transformed-the streets and alleyways deserted, the houses of death with crosses daubed on their doors, the dead-carts on their way to the pits-and encounter the hor...

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  • A JOURNAL OF THE PLAGUE YEAR
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    A JOURNAL OF THE PLAGUE YEAR
    DANIEL DEFOE
    In 1665, the Great Plague swept through London, claiming nearly 100,000 lives. In A Journal of the Plague Year, Defoe vividly chronicles the progress of the epidemic. We follow his fictional narrator through a city transformed-the streets and alleyways deserted, the houses of death with crosses daubed on their doors, the dead-carts on their way to the pits-and encounter the hor...

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  • THE KING OF PIRATES
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    THE KING OF PIRATES
    DANIEL DEFOE
    Following the success of Robinson Crusoe, Daniel Defoe composed a further tale of high adventure at sea. The result was this lesser-known work, an inspired and hugely enjoyable “first-hand” account of pirate life. In response to an alleged letter accusing him of the worst possible deeds, Captain Avery pens a reply seeking to exonerate himself from all such charges. He sees fit ...

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  • CAPTAIN SINGLETON
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    CAPTAIN SINGLETON
    DANIEL DEFOE
    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 ba...

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  • TOUR THROUGH THE EASTERN COUNTIES OF ENGLAND, 1722
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    TOUR THROUGH THE EASTERN COUNTIES OF ENGLAND, 1722
    DANIEL DEFOE
    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 worth w...

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  • THE COMPLETE ENGLISH TRADESMAN
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    THE COMPLETE ENGLISH TRADESMAN
    DANIEL DEFOE
    A fascinating slice of 18th century British life and still surprisingly relevant. (Excerpt from Goodreads) ...

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  • A SHORT NARRATIVE OF THE LIFE AND ACTIONS OF HIS GRACE JOHN D. OF MARLBOROGH
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    A SHORT NARRATIVE OF THE LIFE AND ACTIONS OF HIS GRACE JOHN D. OF MARLBOROGH
    DANIEL DEFOE
    (Excerpt): "Marlborough's military career spanned two periods. Aware of the danger of the "exorbitant power of France" and the corresponding danger to the Protestant religion, disgusted with James's actions at the Gloucester shipwreck and in dealing with Scottish Protestants, Marlborough had joined the bloodless shift to William of Orange. For William, he led the English forces...

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  • THE FORTUNATE MISTRESS VOL I - II
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    THE FORTUNATE MISTRESS VOL I - II
    DANIEL DEFOE
    Excerpt: "I was born, as my friends told me, at the city of Poitiers, in the province or county of Poitou, in France, from whence I was brought to England by my parents, who fled for their religion about the year 1683, when the Protestants were banished from France by the cruelty of their persecutors. I, who knew little or nothing of what I was brought over hither for, was well...

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  • THE LIFE AND ADVENTURES OF ROBINSON CRUSOE
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    THE LIFE AND ADVENTURES OF ROBINSON CRUSOE
    DANIEL DEFOE
    Daniel Defoe relates the tale of an English sailor marooned on a desert island for nearly three decades. An ordinary man struggling to survive in extraordinary circumstances, Robinson Crusoe wrestles with fate and the nature of God. (Excerpt from Goodreads) ...

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  • THE FRIENDLY DAEMON OR THE GENEROUS APPARITION
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    THE FRIENDLY DAEMON OR THE GENEROUS APPARITION
    DANIEL DEFOE
    (Excerpt): "The Friendly Daemon, or the Generous Apparition; being a true narrative of a miraculous cure, newly perform'd upon that famous deaf and dumb gentleman, Dr. Duncan Campbel, by a familiar spirit that appear'd to him in white surplice, like a cathedral singing Boy." ...

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  • DICKORY CRONKE THE DUMB PHILOSOPHER OR GREAT BRITAINS'S WONDER
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    DICKORY CRONKE THE DUMB PHILOSOPHER OR GREAT BRITAINS'S WONDER
    DANIEL DEFOE
    (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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  • MEMOIRS OF A CAVALIER
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    MEMOIRS OF A CAVALIER
    DANIEL DEFOE
    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. The struggle of the narrator to turn his observations into facts and to make certain history out of his uncertain experiences combines with vivid descriptions of ...

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  • THE HISTORY OF THE DEVIL AS WELL ANCIENT AS MODERN
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    THE HISTORY OF THE DEVIL AS WELL ANCIENT AS MODERN
    DANIEL DEFOE
    First published in 1726, this full-length study of the devil's role in society combines Biblical history with common sense as Defoe considers the conflict between forces of destructive evil and the benevolent Deity which controls the world. (Excerpt from Goodreads) ...

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  • EVERYBODY'S BUSINESS IS NOBODY'S BUSINESS
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    EVERYBODY'S BUSINESS IS NOBODY'S BUSINESS
    DANIEL DEFOE
    What a brilliant rant against female servants, footmen and shoe shiners. The maids come from the countryside and they immediately raise their wages, start wearing fancy silk dresses instead of wool. These even start affairs with the Master's apprentice, his son, or even the masters. This of course wrecks his marriage, family and even his estate at which point she dumps a bastar...

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  • THE LIFE AND MOST SURPRISING ADVENTURES OF ROBINSON CRUSOE
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    THE LIFE AND MOST SURPRISING ADVENTURES OF ROBINSON CRUSOE
    DANIEL DEFOE
    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 ...

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  • MOLL FLANDERS
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    MOLL FLANDERS
    DANIEL DEFOE
    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 where married" in bed, but then is unwilling to marry her, and pawns her off on his young...

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  • A JOURNAL OF THE PLAGUE YEAR
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    A JOURNAL OF THE PLAGUE YEAR
    DANIEL DEFOE
    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 un...

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  • A JOURNAL OF THE PLAGUE YEAR
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    A JOURNAL OF THE PLAGUE YEAR
    DANIEL DEFOE
    Defoe’s gripping fictionalized account of the plague that racked seventeenth-century London The year is 1665 and the plague has come to London. The air is heavy with death, the body count is rising, and the death carts are filling quickly. Our unflinching eyewitness narrator, HF, recounts the gruesome realities of life in a city overrun by the Black Death. Terror and hysteria s...

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  • ROBINSON CRUSOE
    ROBINSON CRUSOE
    DEFOE DANIEL
    Imagina que en un momento estás en un emocionante viaje en barco y al siguiente momento estás completamente solo y perdido en una isla. No están tus papás ni el capitán del barco. En una isla no hay casas, no hay mesas donde haya comida ni una cama donde dormir. ...
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  • ROBINSON CRUSOE (EDICION BILINGUE)
    ROBINSON CRUSOE (EDICION BILINGUE)
    DEFOE DANIEL
    Robinson Crusoe es quizás el naufrago más famoso de todos los tiempos y el protagonista de la que es considerada como la primera novela inglesa, escrita por Daniel Defoe (1660-1731) en 1719. La novela narra los 28 años de aventuras de Robinson Crusoe, un marino ingles que naufraga en una isla desierta cerca de las costas de Trinidad. El arquetipo de la novela de aventuras moder...
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  • ANTOLOGÍA DE CUENTOS DE TERROR
    ANTOLOGÍA DE CUENTOS DE TERROR
    DEFOE, DANIEL
    La historia del cuento de miedo «es la historia de un instante fugaz que va desde que la razón abre la puerta de lo oculto hasta que lo oculto empieza a manifestarse dentro de la razón». Esta "Antología de cuentos de terror", seleccionada por Rafael Llopis, uno de los máximos especialistas y conocedores del género en España, se ordena cronológicamente y se divide en dos tomos: ...
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  • ROBINSON CRUSOE
    ROBINSON CRUSOE
    DEFOE DANIEL
    Te has preguntado cómo sería vivir 28 años recluido en una isla que parece desierta luego de un naufragio. En este libro descubrirás las vicisitudes que tuvo que pasar su protagonista para sobrevivir luego de tantos años de aparente soledad, mientras establecía nuevas relaciones con los aborígenes de su morada imprevista. Esta primera novela de Daniel Defoe parece retomar las a...
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  • ROBINSON CRUSOE
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    ROBINSON CRUSOE
    DANIEL DEFOE
    The timeless tale of survival and adventure that set the standard for the English novel Robinson Crusoe is the only man still alive when his ship is destroyed in a terrible storm. Washing up on a deserted island, he realizes that he is stranded, with no immediate hope of rescue. Displaying remarkable ingenuity, Crusoe builds a crude home, raises crops, and keeps track of the pa...

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  • MOLL FLANDERS
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    MOLL FLANDERS
    DANIEL DEFOE
    This eighteenth-century classic by the author of Robinson Crusoe recounts the adventures and many marriages of the infamous thief, lover, and mother. Here are recounted the fortunes and misfortunes of one known to London’s criminal underground as Moll Flanders. Born in Newgate Prison, Moll’s childhood ends when she is seduced by one foster brother, married to another, and widow...

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  • A GENERAL HISTORY OF THE PYRATES
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    A GENERAL HISTORY OF THE PYRATES
    DANIEL DEFOE
    This classic eighteenth-century work on the Golden Age of Piracy includes stories of Black Bart, Calico Jack, Anne Bonny, and many others.   How did we come to picture pirates donning peg legs, wearing eye patches, and burying treasure? This book, dating back to 1724, features biographies of the notorious buccaneers of the Golden Age of Piracy, and the history, stories, and leg...

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  • ROBINSON CRUSOE PARA NIÑOS
    ROBINSON CRUSOE PARA NIÑOS
    DEFOE DANIEL
    Imagina que eres un ciudadano inglés con una insistente curiosidad por descubrir qué hay más allá del horizonte, y la cual te conduce a navegar por el Atlántico hasta bordear las costas de Brasil.En la travesía sobrevives a furiosas tormentas, caes prisionero en manos de piratas, escapas y te haces de una embarcación propia que finalmente naufraga y te arroja a una isla deshabi...
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  • ROBINSON CRUSOE (CLASICOS INFANTILES)
    ROBINSON CRUSOE (CLASICOS INFANTILES)
    DEFOE, DANIEL
    Robinson Crusoe cuenta la increíble historia de un joven que en una expedición por África es capturado por unos piratas y se convierte en esclavo. Consigue escapar y es ayudado por el capitán de un barco que se dirige a Brasil, pero el buque naufraga y resulta que él es el único superviviente, logrando llegar a una isla que parece desierta. Cuando por fin empieza a adaptarse a ...
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  • ROBINSON CRUSOE
    ROBINSON CRUSOE
    DANIEL DEFOE
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