Shipwrecked in a storm at sea, Robinson Crusoe is washed up on a remote and desolate island. As he struggles to piece together a life for himself, Crusoe's physical, moral and spiritual values are...
The haunting cry of `Bring out your dead!` by a bell-ringing collector of 17th-century plague victims has filled readers across the centuries with cold terror. The chilling cry survives in historical...
The Fortunes and Misfortunes of the famous Noll Flanders may have been taken by Defoe from the story of some real criminal he met in Newgate, who 'five times a wife, twelve year a thief, eight year a...
