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A Journal of the Plague Year by Daniel Defoe
9.95 NZD
23.00 (56% off)
Category: Non-Fiction | Series: Penguin Classics Ser.
In 1665 the plague swept through London, claiming over 97,000 lives. Daniel Defoe was just five at the time of the plague, but he later called on his own memories, as well as his writing experience, to create this vivid chronicle of the epidemic and its victims. A Journal (1722) follows Defoe's fictiona ...Show more
Moll Flanders by Daniel Defoe
12.95 NZD
Category: Classic Books
Moll Flanders recounts the story of her extraordinary life, from her birth in Newgate prison to her declining years in married prosperity. After being seduced in the home of her adoptive family she lives off her wits and her beauty, as a whore, 'five times a Wife', and a thief, and is eventually transp ...Show more
Moll Flanders by Daniel Defoe
11.99 NZD
Category: Classic Books | Series: Collins Classics
'My true name is so well known in the Records or Registers at Newgate, and in the Old Bailey, and there are some things of such consequence still depending there, relating to my particular conduct, that it is not to be expected I should set my name or the account of my family to this work.' Born in ...Show more
Moll Flanders by Daniel Defoe
9.95 NZD
Category: Classic Books
Born and abandoned in Newgate Prison, Moll Flanders is forced to make her own way in life. She duly embarks on a career that includes husband-hunting, incest, bigamy, prostitution and pick-pocketing, until her crimes eventually catch up with her. This book recounts her adventures.
Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe; Garnette Cadogan (Introduction by); Eko (Illustrator)
35.00 NZD
Category: Classic Books | Series: Restless Classics Ser.
The Penguin English Library Edition of Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe'I walk'd about on the shore, lifting up my hands, and my whole being, as I may say, wrapt up in the contemplation of my deliverance ... reflecting upon all my comrades that were drown'd, and that there should not be one soul sav'd bu ...Show more
Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe
10.99 NZD
Category: Classic Books | Reading Level: very good
Who has not dreamed of life on an exotic isle, far away from civilization? Here is the novel which has inspired countless imitations by lesser writers, none of which equal the power and originality of Defoe's famous book. Robinson Crusoe, set ashore on an island after a terrible storm at sea, is forced ...Show more
Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe
12.99 NZD
Category: Classic Books | Series: The\Penguin English Library
This is the "Penguin English Library Edition" of "Robinson Crusoe" by Daniel Defoe. 'I walk'd about on the shore, lifting up my hands, and my whole being, as I may say, wrapt up in the contemplation of my deliverance ...reflecting upon all my comrades that were drown'd, and that there should not be one ...Show more
Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe
16.99 NZD
19.99 (15% off)
Category: Classic Books | Series: Vintage Classics | Reading Level: General Adult
Robinson Crusoe runs away from home to join the navy. After a series of adventures at sea, he is shipwrecked in a devastating storm, and finds himself alone on a remote desert island. He remains there many years, building a life for himself in solitude, until the day he discovers another man's footprint ...Show more
Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe
14.99 NZD
Category: Classic Books
"Robinson Crusoe" is among the first novels written in English. Thanks to its extraordinary realism and drama, it is easily the longest-enduring work of popular fiction in the language. The story, probably based on the Pacific-island ordeal of castaway Alexander Selkirk, was presented by Daniel Defoe as ...Show more