Essential Novelists - Daniel Defoe

early literary journalism

Daniel Defoe, August Nemo

• Publisher: Tacet Books
• eBook ISBN:
  9783967242539
• Year: 2020

Welcome to the Essential Novelists book series, were we present to you the best works of remarkable authors. For this book, the literary critic August Nemo has chosen the two most important and meaningful novels of Daniel Defoewhich areA Journal of the Plague Year andThe Life and Adventures of Robinson Crusoe. Daniel Defoe was an English trader, writer, journalist, pamphleteer and spy. He is most famous for his novel Robinson Crusoe, which is second only to the Bible in its number of translations. Defoe was a prolific and versatile writer, producing more than three hundred worksbooks, pamphlets, and journalson diverse topics, including politics, crime, religion, marriage, psychology, and the supernatural. He was also a pioneer of business journalism and economic journalism. Novels selected for this book: -A Journal of the Plague Year -The Life and Adventures of Robinson Crusoe This is one of many books in the series Essential Novelists. If you liked this book, look for the other titles in the series, we are sure you will like some of the authors.

Table of contents

• Title Page
• Author
• A Journal of the Plague Year
• The Life and Adventures of Robinson Crusoe
• About the Publisher
• Colophon