Daniel Defoe eBooks
eBooks di Daniel Defoe editi da Adrien Devret
Nato a Stoke Newington (Londra) nel 1660 e morto a Moorfields nell'aprile del 1731, dedicò gran parte della vita agli affari e solo per ripagare i debiti accumulati, cominciò in età matura l’attività di scrittore. Esordì come saggista di economia, dimostrandosi in anticipo sui tempi nel sostenere la necessità di creare organismi, quali una banca centrale e un sistema pensionistico, oggi cruciali nel funzionamento dello Stato.
Rinchiuso in carcere con l’accusa di aver diffamato in un saggio la Chiesa d’Inghilterra (La via più breve per i dissenzienti), nel 1719 pubblicò il suo capolavoro, Robinson Crusoe, ispirato alla reale vicenda di un marinaio naufragato su un’isola al largo del Cile. Accolto da un ottimo riscontro di pubblico, il libro è considerato, insieme al Don Chisciotte, una delle prime forme di romanzo moderno, ed è talmente diffuso nel mondo, da vantare il maggior numero di edizioni dopo la Bibbia.
Autore di un secondo romanzo Fortune e sfortune della famosa Moll Flanders (fonte d’ispirazione per numerosi film), Defoe fu apprezzato anche come giornalista e fondatore della rivista The Review, considerata una pietra miliare nella storia del giornalismo.
Moll Flanders (Dream Classics). E-book. Formato EPUB Daniel Defoe - Adrien Devret, 2017 -
The Fortunes and Misfortunes of the Famous Moll Flanders (commonly known as simply "Moll Flanders") is a novel written by Daniel Defoe in 1722.Defoe wrote this after his work as a journalist and pamphleteer. By 1722, Defoe had become recognized as a novelist, with the success of Robinson Crusoe in 1719. His political work was tapering off at this point, due to the fall of both Whig and Tory party leaders with whom he had been associated; Robert Walpole was beginning his rise, and Defoe was never fully at home with the Walpole group. Defoe's Whig views are nevertheless evident in the story of Moll, and the novel's full title gives some insight into this and the outline of the plot:"The Fortunes and Misfortunes of the Famous Moll Flanders, Etc. Who Was Born In Newgate, and During a Life of Continu'd Variety For Threescore Years, Besides Her Childhood, Was Twelve Year a Whore, Five Times a Wife [Whereof Once To Her Own Brother], Twelve Year a Thief, Eight Year a Transported Felon In Virginia, At Last Grew Rich, Liv'd Honest, and Died a Penitent. Written from her own Memorandums."
Robinson Crusoe (Dream Classics). E-book. Formato EPUB Daniel Defoe - Adrien Devret, 2017 -
The Life and Strange Surprising 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, where in all the Men perished but Himself. With An Account how he was at last as strangely deliver'd by Pyrates) is a novel by Daniel Defoe, first published in 1719 and sometimes regarded as the first novel in English. The book is a fictional autobiography of the title character, an English castaway who spends 28 years on a remote tropical island near Venezuela, encountering Native Americans, captives, and mutineers before being rescued. This device, presenting an account of supposedly factual events, is known as a "false document" and gives a realistic frame story.