15 Books (eBook)

Daniel Defoe (Autor)

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2018
3565 Seiten
Seltzer Books (Verlag)
978-1-4553-9326-8 (ISBN)

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This file includes: Books -- The Life Adventures and Piracies of the Famous Captain Singleton; The Complete English Tradesman; The Consolidator or, Memoirs of Sundry Transactions From the World in the Moon; An Essay Upon Projects; The Fortunate Mistress of a History of the Life of Mademoiselle Beleau, Known by the Name of Lady Roxana; From London to Land's End; The Further Adventures of Robinson Crusoe; The History of the Devil, as Well Ancient as Modern; History of the Plague in London; A Journal of the Plague Year; Memoirs of a Cavalier or a Military Journal of the Wars in Germany and the Wars in England from the Year 1632 to the Year 1648; The Military Memoirs of Captain George Carleton from the Dutch War 1672 in which He Served, to the Conclusion of the Peace at Utecht 1713; The Fortunes and Misfortunes of the Famous Moll Flanders; Robinson Crusoe; and Tour Through the Eastern Counties of England, 1722. Short Works -- Atalantis Major; Dickory Cronke; The History of the Remarkable Life of John Sheppard; Of Captain Mission; The True-Born Englishman: a Satire; and A Vindication of the Press. According to Wikipedia: 'Daniel Defoe (c.1659 - 24 April 1731[1]), born Daniel Foe, was an English writer, journalist, and pamphleteer, who gained enduring fame for his novel Robinson Crusoe. Defoe is notable for being one of the earliest proponents of the novel, as he helped to popularise the form in Britain, and is even referred to by some as one of the founders of the English novel.[2] A prolific and versatile writer, he wrote more than five hundred books, pamphlets, and journals on various topics (including politics, crime, religion, marriage, psychology and the supernatural). He was also a pioneer of economic journalism.'

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This file includes: Books -- The Life Adventures and Piracies of the Famous Captain Singleton; The Complete English Tradesman; The Consolidator or, Memoirs of Sundry Transactions From the World in the Moon; An Essay Upon Projects; The Fortunate Mistress of a History of the Life of Mademoiselle Beleau, Known by the Name of Lady Roxana; From London to Land's End; The Further Adventures of Robinson Crusoe; The History of the Devil, as Well Ancient as Modern; History of the Plague in London; A Journal of the Plague Year; Memoirs of a Cavalier or a Military Journal of the Wars in Germany and the Wars in England from the Year 1632 to the Year 1648; The Military Memoirs of Captain George Carleton from the Dutch War 1672 in which He Served, to the Conclusion of the Peace at Utecht 1713; The Fortunes and Misfortunes of the Famous Moll Flanders; Robinson Crusoe; and Tour Through the Eastern Counties of England, 1722. Short Works -- Atalantis Major; Dickory Cronke; The History of the Remarkable Life of John Sheppard; Of Captain Mission; The True-Born Englishman: a Satire; and A Vindication of the Press. According to Wikipedia: "e;Daniel Defoe (c.1659 - 24 April 1731[1]), born Daniel Foe, was an English writer, journalist, and pamphleteer, who gained enduring fame for his novel Robinson Crusoe. Defoe is notable for being one of the earliest proponents of the novel, as he helped to popularise the form in Britain, and is even referred to by some as one of the founders of the English novel.[2] A prolific and versatile writer, he wrote more than five hundred books, pamphlets, and journals on various topics (including politics, crime, religion, marriage, psychology and the supernatural). He was also a pioneer of economic journalism."e;

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DANIEL DEFOE - 15 BOOKS AND 6 SHORT WORKS

 

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18th century British authors:

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Books

 

The Life Adventures and Piracies of the Famous Captain Singleton

 

The Complete English Tradesman

 

The Consolidator: or, Memoirs of Sundry Transactions From the World in the Moon.

 

An Essay Upon Projects

 

The Fortunate Mistress of a History of the Life of Mademoiselle Beleau, Known by the Name of Lady Roxana

 

From London to Land's End

 

The Further Adventures of Robinson Crusoe

 

The History of the Devil, as Well Ancient as Modern

 

History of the Plague in London

 

A Journal of the Plague Year

 

Memoirs of a Cavalier or a Military Journal of the Wars in Germany and the Wars in England from the Year 1632 to the Year 1648

 

The Military Memoirs of Captain George Carleton from the Dutch War 1672 in which He Served, to the Conclusion of the Peace at Utecht 1713

 

The Fortunes and Misfortunes of the Famous Moll Flanders

 

Robinson Crusoe

 

Tour Through the Eastern Counties of England, 1722

 

Short Works

Atalantis Major

Dickory Cronke  

The History of the Remarkable Life of John Sheppard

Of Captain Mission

The True-Born Englishman: a Satire

A Vindication of the Press

 

THE LIFE ADVENTURES AND PIRACIES OF THE FAMOUS CAPTAIN SINGLETON BY DANIEL DEFOE

 

PREFACE

LIST OF DEFOE'S WORK

THE LIFE, ADVENTURES, AND PIRACIES OF CAPTAIN SINGLETON

 

PREFACE

 

That all Defoe's novels, with the exception of "Robinson Crusoe," should have been covered with the dust of neglect for many generations, is a plain proof of how much fashions in taste affect the popularity of the British classics. It is true that three generations or so ago, Defoe's works were edited by both Sir Walter Scott and Hazlitt, and that this masterly piece of realism, "Captain Singleton," was reprinted a few years back in "The Camelot Classics," but it is safe to say that out of every thousand readers of "Robinson Crusoe" only one or two will have even heard of the "Memoirs of a Cavalier," "Colonel Jack," "Moll Flanders," or "Captain Singleton." It is indeed distressing to think that while many scores of thousands of copies of Lord Lytton's flashy romance, "Paul Clifford," have been devoured by the public, "Captain Singleton" has remained unread and almost forgotten. But the explanation is simple. Defoe's plain and homely realism soon grew to be thought vulgar by people who themselves aspired to be refined and genteel. The rapid spread of popular education, in the middle of last century, was responsible for a great many aberrations of taste, and the works of the two most English of Englishmen, Defoe and Hogarth, were judged to be hardly fitting for polite society, as we may see from Lamb's Essay on Hogarth, and from an early edition of Chambers's "Cyclopaedia of English Literature" (1843), where we are told: "Nor is it needful to show how elegant and reflective literature, especially, tends to moralise, to soften, and to adorn the soul and life of man." "Unfortunately the taste or circumstances of Defoe led him mostly into low life, and his characters are such as we cannot sympathise with. The whole arcana of roguery and villany seems to have been open to him.... It might be thought that the good taste which led Defoe to write in a style of such pure and unpretending English, instead of the inflated manner of vulgar writers, would have dictated a more careful selection of his subjects, and kept him from wandering so frequently into the low and disgusting purlieus of vice. But this moral and tasteful discrimination seems to have been wholly wanting," &c. The 'forties were the days when critics still talked learnedly of the "noble style," &c., "the vulgar," of "sinking" or "rising" with "the subject," the days when Books of Beauty were in fashion, and Rembrandt's choice of beggars, wrinkled faces and grey hairs, for his favourite subjects seemed a low and reprehensible taste in "high art." Though critics to-day still ingenuously confound an artist's subject with his treatment of it, and prefer scenes of life to be idealised rather than realised by writers, we have advanced a little since the days of the poet Montgomery, and it would be difficult now to find anybody writing so confidently--"Unfortunately the taste or circumstances of Defoe led him mostly into low life," however much the critic might believe it. But let us glance at a few passages in "Captain Singleton," which may show us why Defoe excels as a realist, and why his descriptions of "low life" are artistically as perfect as any descriptions of "higher life" in the works of the English novelists. Take the following description of kidnapping:--

 

  "The woman pretending to take me up in her arms and kiss me, and   play with me, draws the girl a good way from the house, till at   last she makes a fine story to the girl, and bids her go back to   the maid, and tell her where she was with the child; that a   gentlewoman had taken a fancy to the child and was kissing it, but   she should not be frightened, or to that purpose; for they were   but just there; and so while the girl went, she carried me quite   away.--Page 2.

 

Now here, in a single sentence, Defoe catches for us the whole soul and character of the situation. It seems very simple, but it sums up marvellously an exact observation and knowledge of the arts of the gipsy child-stealer, of her cunning flattery and brassy boldness, and we can see the simple little girl running back to the house to tell the nurse that a fine lady was kissing the child, and had told her to tell where they were and she should not be frightened, &c.; and this picture again calls up the hue and cry after the kidnappers and the fruitless hopes of the parents. In a word, Defoe has condensed in the eight simple lines of his little scene all that is essential to its living truth; and let the young writer note that it is ever the sign of the master to do in three words, or with three strokes, what the ordinary artist does in thirty. Defoe's imagination is so extraordinarily comprehensive in picking out just those little matter-of-fact details that suggest all the other aspects, and that emphasise the character of the scene or situation, that he makes us believe in the actuality of whatever he is describing. So real, so living in every detail is this apocryphal narrative, in "Captain Singleton," of the crossing of Africa by a body of marooned sailors from the coast of Mozambique to the Gold Coast, that one would firmly believe Defoe was committing to writing the verbal narrative of some adventurer in the flesh, if it were not for certain passages--such as the description of the impossible desert on page 90, which proves that Defoe was piecing together his description of an imaginary journey from the geographical records and travellers' tales of his contemporaries, aided perhaps by the confused yarns of some sailor friends. How substantially truthful in spirit and in detail is Defoe's account of Madagascar is proved by the narrative of Robert Drury's "Captivity in Madagascar," published in 1729. The natives themselves, as described intimately by Drury, who lived amongst them for many years, would produce just such an effect as Defoe describes on rough...

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 1.3.2018
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Anthologien
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Klassiker / Moderne Klassiker
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Romane / Erzählungen
• ISBN-10: 1-4553-9326-6 / 1455393266
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4553-9326-8 / 9781455393268