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William Minto Daniel Defoe

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William Minto (10 October 1845 – 1 March 1893) was a Scottish man of letters.He was born at [more]

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Daniel Defoe Moll Flanders

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Moll Flanders is a novel by Daniel Defoe. It purports to be the true account of the life of the eponymous Moll, detailing her exploits from birth until old age. Moll's mother is a convict in Newgate Prison in London who is given a reprieve by "pleading her belly," a reference to the custom of staying the executions of pregnant criminals. Her mother is eventually transported to America, and Moll Flanders (not her birth name, she emphasizes, taking care not to reveal it) is raised until adolescence by a goodly foster mother. Thereafter she gets attached to a household as a servant where she is loved by both sons, the elder of whom convinces her to "act like they were married" in bed. Unwilling to marry her, he persuades her to marry his younger brother. After five years of marriage, she then is widowed, leaves her children in the care of in-laws, and begins honing the skill of passing herself off as a fortuned widow to attract a man who will marry her and provide her with security. [more]

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Daniel Defoe Robinson Crusoe

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Robinson Crusoe is a novel by Daniel Defoe. This first edition credited the work's fictional protagonist Robinson Crusoe as its author, leading many readers to believe he was a real person and the book a travelogue of true incidents. Epistolary, confessional, and didactic in form, the book is a fictional autobiography of the title character—a castaway who spends years on a remote tropical island near Trinidad, encountering cannibals, captives, and mutineers before being rescued. Despite its simple narrative style, Robinson Crusoe was well received in the literary world and is often credited as marking the beginning of realistic fiction as a literary genre. Crusoe sets sail from the Queen's Dock in Hull on a sea voyage against the wishes of his parents who want him to pursue a career, possibly in law. After a tumultuous journey where his ship is wrecked in a storm, his lust for the sea remains so strong that he sets out to sea again. This journey, too, ends in disaster as the ship is taken over by Salé pirates and Crusoe is enslaved by a Moor. Two years later, he escapes in a boat with a boy named Xury; a Captain of a Portuguese ship off the west coast of Africa rescues him. The ship is en route to Brazil. With the captain's help, Crusoe procures a plantation. Years later, Crusoe joins an expedition to bring slaves from Africa but he is shipwrecked in a storm about forty miles out to sea on an island (which he calls the Island of Despair) near the mouth of the Orinoco river. [more]

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Daniel Defoe Robinson Crusoes Leben und seltsame Abenteuer

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"Robinson Crusoe" ist ein Roman von Daniel Defoe, der die Geschichte eines Seemannes erzählt, der mehrere Jahre auf einer Insel als Schiffbrüchiger verbringt. Das Buch erschien 1719 und gilt als der erste englische Roman. Das literarische Motiv des Eingeschlossenseins auf einer Insel bezeichnet man nach ihm auch als Robinsonade. Der vollständige Titel des englischen Originals lautet: "The Life and Strange Surprizing Adventures of Robinson Crusoe of York, Mariner: Who lived Eight and Twenty Years, all alone in an un-inhabited Island on the Coast of America, near the Mouth of the Great River of Oroonoque; Having been cast on Shore by Shipwreck, wherein all the Men perished but himself. With An Account how he was at last as strangely deliver'd by Pirates. Written by Himself." ("Das Leben und die seltsamen überraschenden Abenteuer des Robinson Crusoe aus York, Seemann, der 28 Jahre allein auf einer unbewohnten Insel an der Küste von Amerika lebte, in der Nähe der Mündung des großen Flusses Oroonoque; durch einen Schiffbruch an Land gespült, bei dem alle außer ihm ums Leben kamen. Mit einer Aufzeichnung, wie er endlich seltsam durch Piraten befreit wurde. Geschrieben von ihm selbst.") Der große Erfolg des Buches – nach der Erstveröffentlichung am 25. April 1719 erschienen noch selbigen Jahres drei weitere Auflagen – führte zur Fortsetzung "The Farther Adventures of Robinson Crusoe" vom 20. August 1719 und einem eigentümlichen Nachklapp unter dem nunmehr eingeführten "Markennamen" "Serious Reflections during the Life and Surprising Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, with his Vision of the Angelick World. Written by himself" (6. August 1720). Zu den bekannten Illustratoren des Buches gehört Walter Paget. [more]

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Daniel Defoe The Life and Adventures of Robinson Crusoe

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I was born in the year 1632, in the city of York, of a good family, though not of that country, my father being a foreigner of Bremen, who settled first at Hull. He got a good estate by merchandise, and leaving off his trade, lived afterwards at York, from whence he had married my mother, whose relations were named Robinson, a very good family in that country, and from whom I was called Robinson Kreutznaer; but, by the usual corruption of words in England, we are now called—nay we call ourselves and write our name—Crusoe; and so my companions always called me. [more]

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