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Daniel Defoe, Master of Fictions: His Life and Ideas

Author(s):

Novak, Maximillian E.

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Binding:

Softcover

Volume Condition:

Good

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–

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–

Edition:

1st Edition

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Language:

English

Publisher Name:

Oxford University Press

Publication Year:

2001

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ISBN:

9780198126867

Book ID:

002242

Catalogue(s):

Autobiography and Biography ◇ Literary History and Criticism

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756pp. Indexed. Laminated, illustrated, card covers. 8vo. A good copy with just gentle shelf wear, a little dust-marked on fore-edge. Defoe 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. 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stories, which he presented to his future wife under the sobriquet Bellmour, to his Compleat English Gentleman, left unpublished at his death, Defoe was pre-eminently a creator of fictions.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 such great works as Crusoe, Moll Flanders, and Roxana. A large and heavy volume which may require an additional charge for overseas delivery.

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