The English novelist, journalist, poet, and government agent Daniel Defoe (1660-1731) wrote more than 500 books, pamphlets, articles, and poems. Among the most productive authors of the Augustan Age, he was the first of the great 18th-century English nov...
Defoe's modern literary reputation is based almost entirely on the series of prose narratives that he wrote from 1719 to 1724. In April of 1719 Robinson Crusoe was published; with the success of that work, he went on to write a sequel which was only slig...
Daniel Defoe's modern literary reputation is based almost entirely on the series of prose narratives that he wrote from 1719 to 1724. In April of 1719 Robinson Crusoe was published; with the success of that work, he went on to write a sequel that was onl...
A Journal of the Plague Year is a novel by Daniel Defoe, first published in March of 1722. The novel is a fictionalised account of one man's experiences of the year 1665, in which the Great Plague struck the city of London. The book is told roughly...
The Great Pox: the French disease in Renaissance Europe by Jon Arrizabalaga, John Henderson and Roger French, Yale pounds 25 Italy had a bad year in 1495. French armies invaded, sparking military and political miseries which over a century extinguished much of Italy's...
LOVE UNDETECTABLE Notes on Friendship, Sex, and Survival By Andrew Sullivan Knopf. 252 pp. $23 It is admirable that in an era hungry for memoirs and straightforward journalism, Andrew Sullivan writes difficult, abstract essays in the tradition of previous centuries. But he writes them...
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