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DANIEL DEFOE: MASTER OF FICTIONS
HIS LIFE AND WORKS |
| By: |
Maximillian E. Novak |
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Paperback |
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£48.49 |
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| ISBN 10: |
0199261547 |
| ISBN 13: |
9780199261543 |
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| Publisher: |
OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS |
| Pub. date: |
13 February, 2003 |
| Pages: |
776 |
| Description: |
Imprisoned several times, reviled by enemies, hunted by murderous mobs, and yet sometimes feted by the country's most powerful leaders, Daniel Defoe (1660-1731) led an extraordinarily exciting life. Above all, he was a creator of fictions. Examining his life from the perspective most important to the modern reader - his writing career - this biography illuminates the thought and personal experience that fed such masterpieces as Moll Flanders,Robinson Crusoe, and Roxana. |
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Daniel Defoe, best known as the author of Robinson Crusoe, lived during a period of dramatic historical, political, and social change in Britain, and was by any standard a superb observer of his times. Through his pamphlets, newspapers, books of travel, and works of fiction he commented on anything and everything, from birth control to the price of coal, from flying machines to academies for women, from security for the aged to the dangers of the plague. In his fiction he created a type of vivid realism that powerfully influenced the development of the novel. The publication of works such as Robinson Crusoe are major events because they shape the ways in which we see our world, so that ever afterwards thoughts of desolation and desert islands immediately evoke Defoe's masterpiece. From his earliest collection of brief stories, which he presented to his future wife under the sobriquet Bellmour, to his Compleat English Gentleman, left unpublished at his death, Defoe was pre-eminently a creator of fictions. This life gives us, for the first time, a full understanding of the thought and personal experience that went into Crusoe, Moll Flanders, and Roxana. |
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8pp halftone plates |
| Publication: |
UK |
| Imprint: |
Oxford University Press |
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