Showing results by author "Daniel Defoe" in Classics

Ich Robinson - Du Freitag!

Der berühmteste Schiffbrüchige der Welt verbringt 28 Jahre auf einer unbewohnten Insel vor der Küste Amerikas: Robinson Crusoe. Eines Tages - es ist Freitag - rettet er einem Mann auf der Flucht vor Menschenfressern das Leben. Zum Dank gesellt sich dieser, Freitag genannt, als sein Diener und Freund zu ihm. Gemeinsam bestehen sie weitere Abenteuer...

Mitreißend schildert Defoe das Schicksal des jungen englischen Kaufmannssohnes Robinson, den es nach einem Schiffbruch auf eine einsame Insel verschlägt...

The original title of Robinson Crusoe seems to say everything what the book is about: The Life and Strange Surprizing Adventures of Robinson Crusoe...

Running away to sea brings adventure and wealth, but then come shipwreck and a desperate struggle for survival. Defying his parents, Robinson Crusoe goes to sea. He is captured by pirates but escapes to Brazil. He makes a fortune using slave labour to grow tobacco and sugar. He sails to Africa to bring back more slaves but is shipwrecked on an uninhabited island. Everyone else is drowned. For more than twenty years, he lives alone. He learns to hunt and fish and make shelter.

Moll Flanders, Defoe's 18th century classic novel, is at once a novel of sin and redemption and a playful and beguiling social commentary set between the Puritan age and the Age of Reason. Taking center stage in this whorl of irony, humor, pathos, and religious faith is one Moll Flanders - both the most plausible sinner and the most pious repentant in English literature. Moll is as controversial today as when she first appeared in 1722.

Après quelques premières expéditions, Robinson Crusoé, marin d'York, s'embarque pour la Guinée le 1er septembre 1659. Mais le bateau essuie une si forte tempête qu'il dérive pendant plusieurs jours et finalement fait naufrage au nord du Brésil.

Originally published anonymously in the form of a pamphlet, the intriguing ghost story entitled: "A True Relation of the Apparition of One Mrs. Veal the Next Day after her Death to One Mrs. Bargrave at Canterbury the 8th of September, 1705" has long been the cause of academic speculation and dispute. The theme of the story is an uncanny interaction between the spiritual world and the physical world, as well as the nature of death itself. The story describes a posthumous visit by Mrs. Veal to her friend Mrs. Bargrave, during which strange insights and confidences are exchanged.

Depicting a woman’s independent struggle to make her own way in life and find a suitable husband. Daniel Defoe created Moll Flanders, who embarks on a journey of sin, bad luck, and mistakes. Daniel Defoe is commonly regarded as one of the greatest English writers, involved in politics and a personal friend of the then King William III. Moll Flanders was written immediately after his first novel, Robinson Crusoe, and enhanced an already burgeoning reputation.

Nata nel carcere di Newgate, orfana, sposa del fratello, piccola apprendista cucitrice, giovane gentildonna, femminista ante litteram, e più grande ladra del suo tempo. Questo, e altro, è Moll Flanders. E prima ancora è una maestra del travestimento e dell'inganno, al punto che neanche il suo stesso nome è certo, anche quello è una copertura, un velo che ci impedisce di conoscerne la vera identità.

We love control. The ability to predict and organise our lives as we want them. As we desire them. It’s quite a shock, then, when phantoms, ghouls and ghosts play their part, too. They don’t play by our rules. Our welfare is not their concern. They will do as they wish. And they have very vivid imaginations - way beyond the dictionary definition: Phantom. Noun. Something apparently seen, heard or sensed but having no physical reality. An image that appears only in the mind; an illusion. A model, especially a transparent one, of the human body or of any of its parts.

Robinson Crusoé, l'un des romans les plus publiés de l'histoire, raconte l'histoire d'un jeune Anglais naufragé dans une tempête et contraint de se débrouiller seul sur une île isolée... du moins le croit-il. Considéré comme le premier roman de langue anglaise et comme le premier exemple de fiction réaliste en tant que genre littéraire, il connut un grand succès à sa parution. Il est à ce jour considéré comme un livre majeur de la littérature classique.

Moll hones her ability to convince men that she's a wealthy widow, although throughout the course of the novel, her finances take many a dip, especially after she moves to America like her mother. While there, she continuously tries to evade the law and the harsh sentences that come with some of her money-related crimes and later decides to move back to England after getting her hands on the inheritance money that her mother left her.

Daniel Defoe is most well-known for his classic novels Robinson Crusoe and Moll Flanders. Born circa 1659, he was also a journalist, a pamphleteer, a businessman, a spy … and a writer of short stories. His life was long and colourful, and the breadth of his work, still highly regarded, is infused with similar vigor. In these short stories, Defoe succinctly emblazons his style upon subjects as diverse as apparitions, pirates, and politics.

Modern İngiliz romanının ilk örneği olan Robinson Crusoe; bir kişinin doğaya karşı mücadelesini, azmini, zekasını ve başarısını gösteren bireyin destanıdır. Robinson’un ıssız adada tek başına doğayla mücadelesini ve başarısını hayranlıkla okuyacağınız, Daniel Defoe tarafından yazılan bu roman ilk kez 1719 yılında yayımlandı. Eser özellikle gençlere özgü yalınlıkta bir anlatımla hazırlanmış olduğu için severek dinleyeceğinizi düşünüyoruz.

Depois de uma extensa e bem-sucedida carreira como mercador, o inglês Daniel Defoe dedicou-se à literatura e trouxe ao público da época um dos maiores clássicos da Literatura Universal: Robinson Crusoé. O romance conta a história do náufrago inglês que passou mais de trinta anos lutando pela sobrevivência em uma ilha no Caribe – envolvendo-se em aventuras e reflexões, e conquistando a amizade do nativo Sexta-Feira.

Originariamente incluso in "The History And Reality Of Apparitions" (1727), "Il fantasma accusatore" riporta un avvenimento bizzarro, della cui veridicità nemmeno Defoe è sicuro. In occasione di un processo per omicidio, l’imputato - che sembrerebbe sul punto di venire assolto per mancanza di prove - assiste d'improvviso ad un’apparizione inquietante, che lo costringerà a confessare il misfatto.

Daniel Defoe, grande appassionato di misteri, ci racconta qui di un evento apparentemente sovrannaturale, che avrebbe avuto per protagonista una coppia inglese. Il marito, patologicamente geloso, perseguita la moglie con offese e percosse, esasperando lei, i famigliari e gli amici che desidererebbero per loro un po' di pace.

Robinson Crusoe wird nach einem Schiffbruch als einziger Überlebender auf eine einsame Insel verschlagen. Er kämpft um das Überleben - gegen die Unwetter und die feindliche Natur, gegen Kannibalen und die Einsamkeit. Diesem Buch liegt die Geschichte des schottischen Matrosen Alexander Selkirk zugrunde, der von seinem Schiffe desertierte und lange einsam auf der Insel Juan Fernandez lebte.

Die Pest war eine der größten Geißeln in der Geschichte. Von der Antike bis weit ins 17. Jahrhundert forderte sie Millionen von Menschenleben. Daniel Defoe schildert in einer Mischung aus Roman und Augenzeugenbericht die große Pest zu London im Jahre 1664, eine der letzten großen Pestepidemien in Europa, der weit über 100.000 Londoner zum Opfer fielen.

Rok 1651. Siedemnastoletni Robinson Crusoe nie chce wieść nudnego życia jak jego ojciec, kupiec z angielskiego miasta Hull, więc ucieka z domu i zaciąga się na kolejne statki. Podczas jednej z wypraw, w 1659 r., statek się rozbija i Robinson jest jedynym ocalałym. Trafia na bezludną wyspę, gdzie, jak się okaże, spędzi następne 28 lat. Powoli zagospodarowuje się, buduje dom, uprawia zboże, oswaja kozy i papugę, wytwarza naczynia. W przetrwaniu pomagają mu znalezione przedmioty z innego rozbitego statku.