**A rhetorician of the late second century, Athenaeus wrote 'The Deipnosophistae' ('Dinner-Table Philosophers'), a fifteen-book encyclopaedia of information on the ancient world, preserving otherwise lost treasures from many important writers. The text is structured as a dialogue in the vein of Plat
Delphi Complete Works of Daniel Defoe (Illustrated)
β Scribed by Daniel Defoe
- Publisher
- Delphi Classics
- Year
- 2012
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 5 MB
- Edition
- Illustrated
- Category
- Fiction
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
β¦ Synopsis
Widely regarded as the Father of the Novel, Daniel Defoe is a paramount literary figure, who deserves a place in all digital libraries. This comprehensive eBook offers readers the complete FICTIONAL works, with a wide range of non-fiction works too.
Features:
- concise introductions to the novels and other works
- images of how the pamphlets first appeared, giving your Kindle a taste of the original texts
- the complete novels and shorter fiction
- ROBINSON CRUSOE and other novels are fully illustrated
- packed full of images relating to Defoeβs life, works, places and film adaptations
- EVEN includes Defoeβs poetry and travel works
- includes all three volumes of Defoeβs enormous travel work A TOUR THROβ THE WHOLE ISLAND OF GREAT BRITAIN
- rare pamphlets and essays
- features the BONUS text of William Mintoβs biography of Defoe β explore the writerβs literary world!
- scholarly ordering of texts in chronological order and literary genres, allowing easy navigation around Defoeβs immense oeuvre
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