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...
City-County Draft to Be Finalized Sept. 10, But Mayor, Others Wary of Proposed Format The group drafting a new government charter likes to say it has embraced compromise. Members have crafted a government in which a mayor and 11-member commission share power...
Using consolidators to book airline tickets may prove more profitable for you than booking directly with the carriers As airlines experiment more with alternative distribution channels, agents are finding that many of their long-established ideas about doing business are being revised. For example,...
Greeting-card maker American Greetings Corp. on Thursday said its third-quarter earnings rose sharply, helped by a one-time gain from the consolidation of some its retailers. Its shares jumped on the news.Earnings for the quarter ended Nov. 24 increased to $49.7 million, or 83 cents per...
Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group Inc. will consolidate the operations of an affiliate and a subsidiary that offer consumer credit and loan services to counteract stiffer official controls over high-interest consumer lenders and sharper competition in the industry, sources familiar with the matter said...
