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This carefully crafted ebook: "The Consolidator - Memoirs of Sundry Transactions from the World in the Moon (Fantasy Classic)" is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents.The Consolidator or, Memoirs of Sundry Transactions from the World in the Moon is a satirical novel that mixes fantasy with political and social satire. The narrator travels to the moon mostly to get a dispassionate and crushingly granular view of recent and contemporary British political history. The consolidator is a mean of transport that is used to get to the moon a chariot with two feathered winged creatures, each of them representing the houses of parliament.Daniel Defoe (1660-1731), born Daniel Foe, was an English trader, writer, journalist, pamphleteer, and spy, most famous for his novel Robinson Crusoe. Defoe is noted for being one of the earliest proponents of the novel, as he helped to popularize the form in Britain with others such as Samuel Richardson, and is among the founders of the English novel. He was a prolific and versatile writer, producing more than five hundred books, pamphlets, and journals on various topics, including politics, crime, religion, marriage, psychology, and the supernatural.

WHO LIVED EIGHT AND TWENTY YEARS IN AN UNINHABITED ISLAND, ON THE COAST OFAMERICA, NEAR THE MOUTH OF THE GREAT RIVER OROONOQUE, Including an Account of HIS DELIVERANCE THENCE, AND HIS AFTER SURPRISING ADVENTURES: If ever the story of any private mans 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 mans 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 apply them, viz. to the instruction of others by this example, and to justify and honour the wisdom of Providence in all the variety of our circumstances, let them happen how they will.The editor believes this narrative to be a just history of fact; neither is their any appearance of fiction in it: and though he is well aware there are many, who on account of the very singular preservations the author met with, will give it the name of romance; yet in which ever of these lights it shall be viewed, he imagines, that the improvement of it, as well as the diversion, as to the instruction of the reader, will be the same; and as such, he thinks, without farther compliment to the world, he does them a great service in the publication.

This carefully crafted ebook: "THE STORM (Unabridged)" is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents.The Storm relates the events of a week-long storm that hit London starting on 24 November and reaching its height on the night of 26/27 November 1703. It is known as the Great Storm of 1703, and it was described by Defoe as "The Greatest, the Longest in Duration, the widest in Extent, of all the Tempests and Storms that History gives any Account of since the Beginning of Time." During the work on this piece Defoe used other peoples personal accounts of the storm submitted to him through newspaper add. Defoe also shared his view on the reasons of the great disaster, claiming that the destruction of the sovereign fleet, in which about one-fifth of the navy was lost, was a punishment for their poor performance against the Catholic armies of France and Spain during the first year of the War of the Spanish Succession. The Storm is a pioneering work of journalism and science reporting. It has been called the first substantial work of modern journalism, and it is the first detailed account of a hurricane in Britain.Daniel Defoe (1660-1731), was an English trader, writer, journalist, pamphleteer, and spy, most famous for his novel Robinson Crusoe. Defoe is noted for being one of the earliest proponents of the novel, as he helped to popularize the form in Britain with others such as Samuel Richardson, and is among the founders of the English novel. He was a prolific and versatile writer, producing more than five hundred books, pamphlets, and journals on various topics, including politics, crime, religion, marriage, psychology, and the supernatural.

This carefully crafted ebook: "The Political Works of Daniel Defoe" is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents:The True-Born EnglishmanAn Essay upon ProjectsThe Complete English TradesmanEverybodys Business Is Nobodys BusinessSecond Thoughts are BestThe Shortest Way with the DissentersAnd What if the Pretender Should Come?An Answer to a Question that Nobody Thinks ofA Humble Proposal to the People of EnglandReasons against the Succession of the House of HanoverA Seasonable Warning and Caution against the Insinuations of Papists and Jacobites in Favour of the PretenderThe creator of Robinson Crusoe, Daniel Defoe was quite politically active and that activism even resulted with his arrest, placement in a pillory and imprisoning. His most successful poem, The True-Born Englishman is a political satire that defends the king against the perceived xenophobia of his enemies, satirizing the English claim to racial purity. Defoes notable publication, An Essay upon Projects, is a series of proposals for social and economic improvement. The Complete English Tradesman is an example of Defoes political works. He discusses the role of the tradesman in England in comparison to tradesmen internationally, arguing that the British system of trade is far superior. The work that finally got him arrested was a pamphlet The Shortest-Way with the Dissenters, which ruthlessly satirized the High church Tories and the Dissenters. Besides these, Defoe published a great number of political essays, pamphlets and tracts.Daniel Defoe (1660 1731), was an English writer, journalist, and spy, most famous for his novel Robinson Crusoe. Defoe is noted for being one of the earliest proponents of the novel, and he is considered one of the founders of the English novel.

The father of Daniel Defoe was a butcher in the parish of St. Giless, Cripplegate, London. In this parish, probably, Daniel Defoe was born in 1661, the year after the restoration of Charles II. The boys parents wished him to become a dissenting minister, and so intrusted his education to a Mr. Morton who kept an academy for the training of nonconformist divines. How long Defoe staid at this school is not known. He seems to think himself that he staid there long enough to become a good scholar; for he declares that the pupils were "made masters of the English tongue, and more of them excelled in that particular than of any school at that time." If this statement be true, we can only say that the other schools must have been very bad indeed. Defoe never acquired a really good style, and can in no true sense be called a "master of the English tongue."Nature had gifted Defoe with untiring energy, a keen taste for public affairs, and a special aptitude for chicanery and intrigue. These were not qualities likely to advance him in the ministry, and he wisely refused to adopt that profession. With a young mans love for adventure and a dissenters hatred for Roman Catholicism, he took part in the Duke of Monmouths rebellion (1685) against James II. More fortunate than three of his fellow students, who were executed for their share in this affair, Defoe escaped the hue and cry that followed the battle of Sedgemoor, and after some months concealment set up as a wholesale8 merchant in Cornhill. When James II. was deposed in 1688, and the Protestant William of Orange elected to the English throne, Defoe hastened to give in his allegiance to the new dynasty. In 1691 he published his first pamphlet, "A New Discovery of an Old Intrigue, a Satire leveled at Treachery and Ambition." This is written in miserable doggerel verse.

Publicada en 1719, la historia de Robinson, exiliado en la soledad de una isala, y su travesía de supervivencia, es hoy un mito del hombre moderno. Esta edición recupera la traducción de Julio Cortázar, a la vez esta precedida por un imprescindible prologo de J.M. Coetzee, quien a su vez ha reinterpretado este clasico en su novela Foe.

Moll Flanders recounts the story of her extraordinary life, from her birth in Newgate prison to her declining years in married prosperity. After being seduced in the home of her adoptive family she lives off her wits and her beauty, as a whore, 'five times a Wife', and a thief, and is eventually transported to Virginia for her crimes. Rich and penitent, Moll reflects on a world that is both good and evil, just as the reader both abhors and admires her. Arguably the first English novel, Moll Flanders is also a romance, its heroine in perpetual search for a lost familial paradise.

Bob Singleton, típico aventurero del siglo XVIII, corrió aventuras para llenar un libro: fue raptado de niño, se embarcó muy joven, participó en un motín, atravesó África, se enriqueció, se arruinó, se hizo pirata, recorrio mares e islas desde las Canarias a las Indias Occidentales y desde el Cabo de Buena Esperanza a las Orientales, y no hubo barco que surcara el mar sin sufrir el acoso del pirata. Pero Defoe, pragmatico hasta en las cosas del espiritu, le envia en alta mar un rayo providencial que le hace reflexionar sobre su vida y su destino. Curiosa pirueta final que, como ha escrito Prospero Marchesini, ilumina con singular eficacia la mentalidad de un pais y de un siglo.

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.

Robinson Crusoe es un marinero de York que, en una expedición por África en barco, es capturado por unos piratas y se convierte en esclavo. Consigue escapar y es ayudado por un capitán de marina portugues, Ruben Catalin, que se dirige a Brasil. En este ultimo lugar se establece por un tiempo pero surge la opcion de navegar nuevamente a Africa en busca de negros para asistir las necesidades domesticas de el y un grupo de inmigrantes en Brasil; es

The young Robinson Crusoe ignores his father''s advice and decides to become a sailor. But Crusoe is soon caught up in violent storms and finds himself shipwrecked on a remote island where he must li

El Diablo es uno de los protagonistas preeminentes de la cultura occidental. La Iglesia le ha atribuido, desde su fundación, todo tipo de crímenes, maldades y travesuras. Ahora bien, quizás Satanás no es tan poderoso y despiadado como lo pintan aquellos que a lo largo de los siglos han llevado la voz cantante en materia de religion.Daniel Defoe, el genial creador de Robinson Crusoe, publico en 1726 esta Historia del Diablo en la que sigue sus huellas y testimonios desde los origenes de la humanidad hasta la epoca moderna, haciendo gala de sus vastos conocimientos politicos, historicos y literarios, de su erudicion biblica y, sobre todo, de la sutil ironia que caracterizo su obra. Obra a un tiempo critica y amena, polemica y descriptiva, erudita y panfletaria, su lectura sigue siendo imprescindible tanto para los interesados por su inmortal protagonista como para los seguidores de su no menos inmortal autor.

Moll Flanders, child of a convict in Newgate Prison, was born in Newgate, and had a life of continued variety for threescore years. She was twelve years a whore, five times a wife (whereof even once to her own Brother), she was twelve years a thief, at last grew rich, lived honest and died a penitent. Written from her own memorandums.An exciting social novel of that time.

Daniel Defoe is best known as the author of "Robinson Crusoe," published in 1719. However between 1724 and 1726 he published the three volume work, "A Tour Through the Whole Island of Great Britain." This is a superb and detailed account of what Great Britain was like on the eve of the industrial and agricultural revolutions, written in a matter-of-fact style that comes over as surprisingly modern.The three volumes are written in the form of 13 "letters," each describing a tour undertaken by Defoe.

Abenturazko eleberriaren klasiko handienetako bat da Robinson Crusoe, mila bertsio, itzulpen, laburpen, komikirako nahiz zinemarako moldaketa eta abar sorrarazi dituena. Izan ere, uharte huts batera iritsi eta bizimodua bere kasa atera behar duen naufragoaren irudiak indar berezia du guztion ikonografian.Egiazko kasu batean oinarritu arren, irudimen aberatsa eta hainbat gairi buruzko bere jakintza zabala erabili zuen Defoek historia hau idazteko. Ia 30 urteko bakarraldian, era guztietako estualdi eta gorabeherak biziko ditu Robinsonek, baina bere kemenari eta asmamenari esker lortuko du arazoei aurre egin eta itxaropenari eustea.Biziraupena ziurtatzeko borrokarekin batera, kontaketak badu beste osagai nabarmen bat, gizon zuri kristau ingelesaren nagusitasun moral eta materialaren frogantza bihurtzen baitu egileak, planeta osoa mendean hartuko zuen kolonialismoaren aurrekari.