Daniel Defoe

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

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A Journal of the Plague Year, written by a citizen who continued all the while in London by Daniel Defoe A Journal of the Plague Year is a book by Daniel Defoe, first published in March 1722. It is an account of one man's experiences of the year 1665, in which the bubonic plague struck the city of London in what became known as the Great Plague of London, the last epidemic of plague in that city.

During one of his several adventurous voyages in the 1600s, an Englishman becomes the sole survivor of a shipwreck and lives on a deserted island for more than twenty-eight years.

Daniel Defoe's classic account of a city under siege by the Black Plague carries the listener across four centuries and steeps him in the terror of assault by a relentless and implacable foe. Silent, mysterious, lethal, its cause locked in a science yet unborn, the Black Death killed one third of Europe's population with democratic disregard of age, position or entitlement.

Moll is a headstrong woman whose lowly station in 18th century London leaves her in the most dire of circumstances. Her story involves husbands and numerous lovers, shocking family secrets, and travels to bustling London and the Virginia colonies. Moll's misdeeds stretch from sexual adventures to criminal acts, leaving her with a price on her head as she strives to triumph against overwhelming odds.

An abridged version of the tale of Englishman Robinson Crusoe, who, after becoming the sole survivor of a 1659 shipwreck, lives on a deserted island for more than twenty-eight years.