Daniel Defoe

Broschiertes Buch

Moll Flanders

Beschreibung

These are the fortunes and misfortunes of Moll Flanders: born in Newgate Prison, twelve years a prostitute, five times a wife (once to her own brother), twelve years a thief and eight years a transported felon in Her Majesty's colony of Virginia.

Autor

Daniel Defoe was born in London in 1660. He worked briefly as a hosiery merchant, then as an intelligence agent and political writer. His writings resulted in his imprisonment on several occasions, and earned him powerful friends and enemies. During his lifetime Defoe wrote over two hundred and fifty books, pamphlets and journals and travelled widely in both Europe and the British Isles. Among his most famous works are Robinson Crusoe (1719), Moll Flanders (1722) and A Journal of the Plague Year (1722). Though Defoe was nearly sixty before he began writing fiction, his work is so fundamental to the development of the novel that he is often cited as the first true English novelist. He is also regarded as a founding father of modern journalism and one of the earliest travel writers. Daniel Defoe died in April 1731.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Vintage Publishing
• Seitenzahl: 338
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Dezember 2010
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 196mm x 130mm x 33mm
• Gewicht: 254g
• ISBN-13: 9780099518877
• ISBN-10: 0099518872
• Artikelnr.: 27375639