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Robinson Crusoe y Foe componen una sola novela sobre los naufragios, personales y colectivos, sobre la inexistencia de tierras vírgenes, sobre los Viernes que Occidente esconde en el desván. "Como Odiseo en su singladura hacia Itaca o como el Quijote montado sobre Rocinante, Robinson Crusoe, con su loro y su sombrilla, se ha convertido en un personaje de la conciencia colectiva de Occidente." Con estas palabras, Coetzee reconoce un mito que puede y debe ser objeto de reescritura, de relectura, de parodia... En los cimientos de ambos libros, las causas y consecuencias del imperio colonial britanico.

"The Fortunes and Misfortunes of the Famous Moll Flanders" es una novela publicada en 1722 por Daniel Defoe. Considerada como novela picaresca, Moll Flanders es un personaje de clase baja que se mueve por distintas esferas sociales intentando salir adelante mediante su ingenio. La protagonista sufre todos sus males por un unico defecto: querer ser rica sin poder serlo; lo que la lleva a cometer adulterio, prostitucion, abandono infantil, incesto y robo. Asimismo es la historia de los crimenes de una mujer sin fe, con una voluntad pecaminosa, a la que la prosperidad solo le llega cuando acepta la confesion y la sumision a los designios divinos. "Moll Flanders" tambien ofrece valiosa informacion acerca de la vida, los habitos y los castigos en el mundo de la delincuencia del siglo XVIII, asi como una de las mejores descripciones de la vida en el barrio londinense de The Mint y de la prision de Newgate.

«Robinson Crusoé» foi o primeiro romance de Daniel Defoe. Produto de uma imaginação poderosa, foi um sucesso imediato e ainda hoje é uma das obras mais importantes e controversas da literatura ingles

La fortune littéraire de Robinson Crusoé a été si prodigieuse que le nom de lauteur, aux yeux du public, a presque disparu sous sa gloire. Si Daniel de Foë avait eu la précaution de faire suivre sa s

Daniel Defoe's great masterpiece, in a gorgeous new clothbound edition designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith. These delectable and collectible Penguin editions are bound in high-quality colourful, tactile cloth with foil stamped into the design 'I walk'd about on the shore, lifting up my hands, and my whole being, as I may say, wrapt up in the contemplation of my deliverance ...reflecting upon all my comrades that were drown'd, and that there should not be one soul sav'd but my self...' Who has not dreamed of life on an exotic isle, far away from civilization? Here is the novel which has inspired countless imitations by lesser writers, none of which equal the power and originality of Defoe's famous book. Robinson Crusoe, set ashore on an island after a terrible storm at sea, is forced to make do with only a knife, some tobacco, and a pipe. He learns how to build a canoe, make bread, and endure endless solitude. That is, until, twenty-four years later, when he confronts another human being. First published in 1719, Robinson Crusoe has been praised by such writers as James Joyce, Virginia Woolf, and Samuel Johnson as one of the greatest novels in the English language. "Robinson Crusoe has a universal appeal, a story that goes right to the core of existence". (Simon Armitage).

The world is so taken up of late with novels and romances, that it will be hard for a private history to be taken for genuine, where the names and other circumstances of the person are concealed, and on this account we must be content to leave the reader to pass his own opinion upon the ensuing sheet, and take it just as he pleases.The author is here supposed to be writing her own history, and in the very beginning of her account she gives the reasons why she thinks fit to conceal her true name, after which there is no occasion to say any more about that.It is true that the original of this story is put into new words, and the style of the famous lady we here speak of is a little altered; particularly she is made to tell her own tale in modester words that she told it at first, the copy which came first to hand having been written in language more like one still in Newgate than one grown penitent and humble, as she afterwards pretends to be.The pen employed in finishing her story, and making it what you now see it to be, has had no little difficulty to put it into a dress fit to be seen, and to make it speak language fit to be read. When a woman debauched from her youth, nay, even being the offspring of debauchery and vice, comes to give an account of all her vicious practices, and even to descend to the particular occasions and circumstances by which she ran through in threescore years, an author must be hard put to it wrap it up so clean as not to give room, especially for vicious readers, to turn it to his disadvantage.

¿Qué pasaría si un día el barco en el que te encuentras naufraga y te quedas solo en una isla desierta? ¿Y qué pasaría si después de un largo tiempo de supervivencia y soledad encuentras las huellas de otro hombre en la arena? ¿Que ocurriria si te enteras de que ese hombre huye de unos canibales? ¿Que sucederia si se hicieran amigos? Todas estas preguntas tienen contestacion dentro de las paginas de este libro cargado de aventura, suspense y mucho entretenimiento.

Um rico painel da era de ouro da pirataria (1717-24)Uma das inúmeras aventuras de piratas publicadas em 1724 pelo autor do clássico Robinson Crusoé, o renomado escritor e jornalista Daniel Defoe, com o pseudonimo de capito Charles Johnson.

Um rico painel da era de ouro da pirataria (1717-24)Uma das inúmeras aventuras de piratas publicadas em 1724 pelo autor do clássico Robinson Crusoé, o renomado escritor e jornalista Daniel Defoe, com o pseudonimo de capito Charles Johnson.

Um rico painel da era de ouro da pirataria (1717-24)Uma das inúmeras aventuras de piratas publicadas em 1724 pelo autor do clássico Robinson Crusoé, o renomado escritor e jornalista Daniel Defoe, com o pseudonimo de capito Charles Johnson.

One mans love of the sea leaves him stranded on a desert island with nothing but a few goats, a bible and a parrot for company. Will he ever escape? Will his new pal Friday learn to efficiently press a goatskin jerkin? Or will solitude send him totally barmy? Pulp! The Classics is a new imprint that gives the nations favourite classic novels original retro covers in a pulp fiction style - with a dash of wry humour. Redesigned and reset, using the original unabridged text from some of the best writers that have ever lived, Pulp! The Classics promises readers their favourite books with stunning and highly original jackets.

Um rico painel da era de ouro da pirataria (1717-24)Uma das inúmeras aventuras de piratas publicadas em 1724 pelo autor do clássico Robinson Crusoé, o renomado escritor e jornalista Daniel Defoe, com o pseudonimo de capito Charles Johnson.

Shipwrecked off the coast of Trinidad, Robinson Crusoe a young man with a thirst for adventure finds himself washed up on a remote tropical island with nothing but a few tools and animals for company. Cast away for thirty years, he must battle cannibals, mutineers and the elements in a tale so convincing that many readers at the time believed it to be non-fiction. A true page-turner, Robinson Crusoe is one of the most enduring novels in the English language and its unique blend of extraordinary realism and brilliant drama continues to delight readers the world over.This Macmillan Collectors Library edition of Daniel Defoe''s Robinson Crusoe features illustrations by the celebrated Victorian caricaturist George Cruikshank, and an afterword by writer and journalist Ned Halley.Designed to appeal to the booklover, the Macmillan Collector''s Library is a series of beautiful gift editions of much loved classic titles. Macmillan Collector''s Library are books to love and treasure.

Esta obra, escrita en 1722, recorre la vida de una de las principales ciudades de Europa, Londres, en uno de los momentos más terroríficos de su historia: la peste bubónica que cayó sobre la ciudad en 1666 y que causó la muerte a unas cien mil personas. En el libro, escrito por Daniel Defoe basándose en documentos históricos y en sus propias vivencias de niño, asistimos a un escenario aterrador: una tierra desolada, baldía, abatida por el hambre y el temor al contagio. El autor aporta numerosísimos datos, recuentos y estadísticas oficiales que dan una dimensión de la tragedia que sacudió a la capital del Reino Unido, lo que sitúa esta obra a mitad de camino entre la novela y la crónica periodística.

"Al segle XVII, el capità James Misson i la seva tripulació de pirates van retirar-se a l’illa de Madagascar, on van fundar la comunitat utòpica coneguda històricament com Libertàtia, una societat qu