Daniel Defoe: The Life and Strange, Surprising Adventures

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pp. xvi 427.”The colorful life of a literary phenomenon and masterfully crafted biography that’s won applause from readers and critics alike. Intimate with monarchs, pilloried at Newgate Prison, hounded by his creditors to the day he died, the maverick newsman, satirist, soldier, and spy Daniel Defoe did not so much defy contradiction as epitomize it. So Richard West continually demonstrates in this spirited biography of the indefatigable Puritan pamphleteer who earned himself literary immortality with such novels as the scandalous Moll Flanders and the all-time bestselling Robinson Crusoe.” remainder mark on the base of the book

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ISBN 0786706767
ISBN13 9780786706761
Number of pages 427
Original Title Daniel Defoe: The Life and Strange, Surprising Adventures
Published Date 2000
Book Condition Very Good
Jacket Condition No Dustjacket
Binding Paperback
Size 8vo
Place of Publication New York
Edition First edition
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pp. xvi 427.”The colorful life of a literary phenomenon and masterfully crafted biography that’s won applause from readers and critics alike. Intimate with monarchs, pilloried at Newgate Prison, hounded by his creditors to the day he died, the maverick newsman, satirist, soldier, and spy Daniel Defoe did not so much defy contradiction as epitomize it. So Richard West continually demonstrates in this spirited biography of the indefatigable Puritan pamphleteer who earned himself literary immortality with such novels as the scandalous Moll Flanders and the all-time bestselling Robinson Crusoe.” remainder mark on the base of the book

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Weight 1.2 kg