ROXANA, O LA CORTESANA AFORTUNADA

ROXANA, O LA CORTESANA AFORTUNADA

DANIEL DEFOE

$875.00
IVA incluido
Agotado
Editorial:
ALBA
Materia
LITERATURA
ISBN:
978-84-8428-489-5
Idioma:
Castellano

A los quince años y con una dote de 2.000 libras, la heroína de esta novela se casa con el hijo de un fabricante de cerveza de la City londinense. Abandonada por él, se encuentra con cinco niños y ni un penique para alimentarlos. En tales circunstancias, las imprevistas atenciones de su casero conducen a una situación cada vez menos equívoca. Luego vendrán un príncipe alemán, un mercader holandés, el mismísimo rey de Inglaterra… y una carrera brillante llena de secretos, amenazas, huidas, crímenes y dinero. Inédita en español hasta hoy, narra la historia de una mujer que no quiere ser esclava de los hombres y que instituye, fuera del matrimonio, su propio negocio.

Otros libros del autor

  • 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
    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
    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
    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
    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
    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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