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Roxana (1724) was Defoe's last novel. It is a fascinating work, simultaneously strange and tragic, which dramatizes the moral deterioration and ... More

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Daniel Defoe's last novel "Roxana" is perhaps his darkest. Using his "fallen woman" archetype established in his seminal work "Moll Flanders," Defoe ... More

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Flush with scandal, real historical figures, accurate period detail from the English Restoration, and an enduring love story, this novel tells the ... More

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First published in 1844, this is Thackeray's earliest substantial work of fiction and perhaps his most original. The text is that of Saintbury's 1908 ... More

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Miguel de Cervantes began to write this literary classic after serving in the Spanish militia, surviving a gunshot wound, being captured by Barbary ... More

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This highly-esteemed and zestful translation and abridgment of the beloved masterpiece is vivid in its characterizations of men and women from every ... More

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Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are ... More

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Henryk Adam Aleksander Pius Sienkiewicz (1846-1916) was a Polish journalist and Nobel Prize-winning novelist. In Poland, he is best known for his ... More

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Roxana (1724), Defoe's last and darkest novel, is the autobiography of a woman who has traded her virtue, at first for survival, and then for fame ... More

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A hugely entertaining book in Defoe's signature style. Replete with heart-stopping adventures and thrilling escapades, it takes the reader to exotic ... More

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It is early summer, 1661, and the royal court of France is in turmoil. Can it be true that the King is in love with the Duchess d'Orleans? Or has his ... More

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Rico illuminates the point of view of the narrator in three of the greatest picaresque novels.

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Cruz examines the treatment of poverty, prostitution, war, and other social concerns in the cultural and literary discourses of early modern Spain.

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Sparkling with comic genius and narrative exuberance, "I Served the King of England" is a story of how the unbelievable came true. Its remarkable ... More

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Defoe's Journal of the Plague Year is an extraordinary account of the devastation and human suffering inflicted on the city of London by the Great ... More

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Rumors about the decadent Black Widow, who buys prisoners to use for her own pleasure, abound in the Devils Chateau. However, captured English spy ... More

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A predecessor of both the nativist humor of Mark Twain and the exotic adventure stories of Washington Irving, Herman Melville, and Richard Dana, ... More

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The first comprehensive English-language study of the modern German picaresque tradition.

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