Defoe, Daniel

An Englishman who is the sole survivor of a seventeenth century shipwreck lives for almost thirty years on a deserted island before being rescued.

Having been abandoned at birth in London's Newgate prison, Moll Flanders uses her disreputable skills in order to survive in the corrupt society of eighteenth-century England. However, eventually Moll arrives in America and finds her fortune there. Includes a glossary of historic terminology.

Follows the adventures of Moll Flanders from her birth in Newgate Prison to her position of wealth and stature in seventeenth century England and move to the American colonies.

During one of his several adventurous voyages in the 1600s, an Englishman becomes the sole survivor of a shipwreck and lives for nearly thirty years on a deserted island.

The classic account of shipwrecked Englishman and his survival on a desert island.

Follows the heroine's adventures and struggle against poverty, from her birth at Newgate Prison in seventeenth-century England to her success in the American colonies.

Supposedly an eye-witness account of the devastation of the Great Plague of London in 1665, this is really a fictional narrative told with such vividness that it feels real. The answer to why it feels so real can possibly be found in the introduction to this edition.