The Life and Strange Surprising Adventures of Daniel Defoe - Hardcover

West, Richard

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0786705574 ISBN 13: 9780786705573

Verlag: Carroll & Graf Publishers Inc, 1998

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Book by West Richard Defoe Daniel

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The many baffling, colorful facets of Daniel Defoe's person and career come into striking focus in this new biography by Richard West. Here is Defoe the tradesman, soldier, and spy, the journalist, novelist, satirist, newsman, and pamphleteer. Consistent only in his failure as a businessman, Defoe would never manage to provide adequately for his wife and their six children, neither in commerce nor by his undeniably prolific pen - a pen that in the year following Defoe's imprisonment, by West's estimate, wrote a half million words. That same year Defoe also founded a newspaper, The Review, for which he created such features as the lead story, the obituary, foreign news analysis, the gossip column, and the advice column. With a finesse and independence of spirit not unlike his subject's own, West unfolds his story of a maverick Defoe, a Puritan but no prude, a Dissenter without a constituency, a hack who never failed to pursue the truth and by the way also produced "Moll Flanders," " "Roxana," "A Journal of the Plague Year," and "Robinson Crusoe."

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The strange and colorful life of Daniel Defoe has long baffled historians. Constantly running from his creditors, always struggling to feed his wife and six children, he became a consummate pamphleteer as well as the first great novelist in the English language, with such classics as Robinson Crusoe (the world bestseller of all time), Moll Flanders, and A Journal of the Plague Year.

Drawing Defoe from the shadows where he preferred to live his life, West presents the enigmatic writer in all his gulses: the rebel against James II, the spy for Queen Anne, the bankrupt prison convict, and the first great English journalist, who created the lead story, the obituary, and the gossip and advice columns.

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• Verlag: Carroll & Graf Publishers Inc
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1998
• ISBN 10: 0786705574
• ISBN 13: 9780786705573
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 446