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Book Source: Digital Library of India Item 2015.201885 dc.contributor.author: Daniel Defoe dc.date.accessioned: 2015-07-09T12:43:03Z dc.date.available: 2015-07-09T12:43:03Z dc.date.digitalpublicationdate: 2005-03-15 dc.date.citation: 1896 dc.identifier.barcode: 2990100067604 dc.identifier.origpath: /data_copy/upload/0067/609 dc.identifier.copyno: 1 dc.identifier.uri: http://www.new.dli.ernet.in/handle/2015/201885 dc.description.scanningcentre: S.V. Digital Library, Tirupati dc.description.main: 1 dc.description.tagged: 0 dc.description.totalpages: 324 dc.format.mimetype: application/pdf dc.language.iso: English dc.publisher.digitalrepublisher: Digital Library Of India dc.publisher: George Routledge And Sons, Limited, London dc.source.library: Bt College, Madanapale dc.subject.classification: Language. Linguistics. Literature dc.subject.keywords: A Journal Of The Plague Year dc.subject.keywords: Daniel Defoe dc.subject.keywords: George Routledge And Sons, Limited dc.title: A Journal Of The Plague Year

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Original t.p. : A journal of the plague year ... / written by a citizen who continued all the while in London. London : Printed for E. Nutt at the Royal Exchange, 1722

Original t.p. : A journal of the plague year ... / written by a citizen who continued all the while in London. London : Printed for E. Nutt at the Royal Exchange, 1722

[Journal abrege de ce qui s'est passe en la ville de Marseille. English]. A brief journal of what passed in the city of Marseilles, while it was afflicted with the plague, in the year 1720. Extracted from the register of the council chamber of the Town-House, kept by Monsieur Pichatty de ... 1721.. Digitized from IA40313602-57 . Previous issue: bim_eighteenth-century_whole-art-of-fishing-_1714 . Next issue: bim_eighteenth-century_a-genuine-letter-to-mr-_fowke-francis-resident_1755 .

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A LibriVox recording of A Journal of the Plague Year , by Daniel Defoe. Read by Denny Sayers. April 15th 2013: missing sections of this book have been recorded, and the whole book recatalogued. Daniel Defoe's 'A Journal of the Plague Year' (1722) is a fictionalized account of the bubonic plague epidemic that struck London in 1665 which Defoe witnessed as a five-year old, the year before the Great Fire of London. This work is among the first English novels. Like 'Robinson Crusoe', 'Moll Flanders' and several other of his novels, Defoe published this work as though it were based on primary sources and was not, so he pretended, a novel at all. This was Defoe's way of developing an audience among the reading public for fiction writing. The work is remarkable in its abundant use of "telling detail" to create an impression of verisimilitude, and for nearly two hundred years it was widely considered a pioneering work of journalism rather than a novel. Indeed, it is still assigned as required reading in journalism courses. (Summary by Dennis Sayers). For further information, including links to online text, reader information, RSS feeds, CD cover or other formats (if available), please go to the LibriVox catalog page for this recording. For more free audiobooks, or to become a volunteer reader, please visit librivox.org . Download M4B 01-13 (175MB) Download M4B 14-35 (159MB)

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viii, 315 p. ; 19 cm

viii, 315 p. ; 19 cm

4 unnumbered pages, 68 (i. e. 76) pages ; (8vo)

4 unnumbered pages, 68 (i. e. 76) pages ; (8vo)

4 unnumbered pages, 68 (i. e. 76) pages ; (8vo)

4 unnumbered pages, 68 (i. e. 76) pages ; (8vo)

Defoe's 1722 quasi-fictional account of the plague. 

xxiv, 253 p. 19 cm

xxiv, 253 p. 19 cm

xxiv, 253 p. 19 cm

Book from Project Gutenberg: A Journal of the Plague Year, written by a citizen who continued all the while in London Library of Congress Classification: PR

Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh

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Book from Project Gutenberg: A brief Journal of what passed in the City of Marseilles, while it was afflicted with the Plague, in the Year 1720

Arrangement and typography by Richard Ellis

Arrangement and typography by Richard Ellis

Arrangement and typography by Richard Ellis

Lecture/Video on Defoe's A Journal of the Plague Year for Eng 328

Lecture/Video on Defoe's A Journal of the Plague Year for Eng 328

Full title: A Journal of the Plague Year: Being Observations or Memorials, Of the most Remarkable Occurrences, As well Publick as Private, Which happened in London During the last Great Visitation In 1665. Written by a Citizen who continued all the while in London. Never made publick before. 8vo. pp. [4], 287, [1]. Signatures: A2 B-T8. Contemporary blind-stamped calf, very neatly rebacked, later endleaves. Complete with half title. A few pen-trials in blank areas at beginning and end. Ownership inscription by W. Jackson on title page. First edition of one of the truly great early novels in English. Despite its deceptively dry approach (a recitation of daily ‘occurrences’ so realistic that it was long taken, as Defoe intended, for non-fiction), the author’s artistic command keeps the largely impersonal narrative compelling throughout, while his unvaunted humanity warms the anecdotal text from beginning to end. Once the narrator makes his eccentric but pious decision to remain in metropolitan London – never better evoked for this era, parish by parish, street by street – whatever is to eventuate, no responsive reader can put down the book.

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Bibliography: p. 177-182

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Jim McWard discusses ‘Journal of the Plague Year’ by Daniel Defoe March. The Great Books Mini-Lecture Series is designed to introduce you to watershed texts that have changed readers’ views of the world. It’s a series of short talks on great books. For more information on this and other happenings at the college, visit http://www.jccc.edu.

Jim McWard discusses ‘Journal of the Plague Year’ by Daniel Defoe March. The Great Books Mini-Lecture Series is designed to introduce you to watershed texts that have changed readers’ views of the world. It’s a series of short talks on great books. For more information on this and other happenings at the college, visit http://www.jccc.edu.

Adaptation of the story of Robinson Crusoe for grammar school children. Tells how the shipwrecked sailor makes a new life for himself on the island, providing shelter, food, and clothing for himself from the few tools he rescued from the ship and what he is able to find on the island. He lives on the island over twenty years before he is finally rescued and during that time must re-invent almost everything necessary for daily sustenance. (Summary from The Baldwin Project.)

2Fortunes and Misfortunes of the Famous Moll Flanders

By Daniel Defoe

Defoe wrote this novel after his work as a journalist and pamphleteer. By 1722, Defoe had become recognized as a novelist, with the success of Robinson Crusoe in 1719. His political work was tapering off at this point, due to the fall of both Whig and Tory party leaders with whom he had been associated. - Defoe's Whig views are nevertheless evident in the story of Moll. The full title of the novel tells part of its story: "The Fortunes and Misfortunes of the Famous Moll Flanders, Etc. Who was born in Newgate, and during a life of continu'd Variety for Threescore Years, besides her Childhood, was Twelve Year a Whore, five times a Wife (whereof once to her own brother), Twelve Year a Thief, Eight Year a Transported Felon in Virginia, at last grew Rich, liv'd Honest and died a Penitent. Written from her own Memorandums." (Summary from Wikipedia)

3Journal of the Plague Year

By Daniel Defoe

The novel is a fictionalized account of one man's experiences of the year 1665, in which the Great Plague struck the city of London. The book is told roughly chronologically, though without sections or chapter headings.

4Robinson Crusoe

By Daniel Defoe

Daniel Defoe’s <i>The Life and Strange Surprizing Adventures of Robinson Crusoe of York, Mariner</i> (1719) is considered by many the first English novel. Based on the real-life experiences of the castaway Alexander Selkirk, the book has had a perennial appeal among readers of all ages-–especially the young adult reading public–-who continue to find inspiration in the inventive resourcefulness of its hero, sole survivor of a shipwreck who is marooned on an uninhabited island.<br /><br /> Especially poignant, after more than two decades of unbroken solitude, is the affection that Robinson develops for Friday, another survivor fleeing certain death at the hands of enemy tribesmen from the South American continent. (Summary by Denny Sayers)

5Robinson Crusoe in Words of One Syllable

By Lucy Aikin and Daniel Defoe

Mary Godolphin was the pseudonym of Lucy Aikin who undertook translating great literature into single-syllable words so that young readers could enjoy plots that were considerably more interesting than, say, the McGuffey readers of the 1880's or the "Dick and Jane" primers of the 1950s (still around today as "decodable readers" in elementary schools).<br /><br />She produced this volume based on Daniel Defoe's most famous work, considered by many to be the first English novel (1719). She also rendered Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress and Wyss' Swiss Family Robinson, which she translated as well.<br /><br />I’ve recorded this as a complement to my voicing for LibriVox of Robinson Crusoe by Defoe and the companion recording of James Baldwin’s version, Robinson Crusoe Written Anew for Children (actually more for adolescents). So many different versions for a variety of young audiences speaks to the timelessness of Defoe’s original! (Summary by Denny Sayers)

6Life, Adventures & Piracies of Captain Singleton

By Daniel Defoe

The Life, Adventures & Piracies of the Famous Captain Singleton is a "bipartite adventure story whose first half covers a traversal of Africa, and whose second half taps into the contemporary fascination with piracy. It has been commended for its depiction of the homosexual relationship between the eponymous hero and his religious mentor, the Quaker, William Walters." (Summary by Wikipedia)

7Further Adventures of Robinson Crusoe

By Daniel Defoe

“THE FARTHER ADVENTURES OF ROBINSON CRUSOE; Being the Second and Last Part OF HIS LIFE, And of the Strange Surprizing Accounts of his Travels Round three Parts of the Globe.” After the death of his wife, Robinson Crusoe is overcome by the old wanderlust, and sets out with his faithful companion Friday to see his island once again. Thus begins a journey which will last ten years and nine months, in which Crusoe travels over the world, along the way facing dangers and discoveries in Madagascar, China, and Siberia. (Summary by D. Leeson)

8Robinson Crusoe (version 2)

By Daniel Defoe

Shipwrecked and castaway, Daniel DeFoe’s hard-luck character is still the standard for “growing where you’re planted.” Captured by pirates, he makes his break in a small boat and undergoes desperate adventures before winning his way back to civilization. But Crusoe proves willing to chance his luck a second time when, after sweating his way to prosperity as a planter in Brazil, he undertakes a voyage that isn’t needful… and is marooned on a small island off South America.<br><br>Crusoe shows the value of single-minded labor as he pursues ways to feed, shelter, and clothe himself. His ardent wish is to escape his island – why is it that the only people who come there are cannibals? But he spends more than two decades in isolation before acquiring a sidekick – the man Friday you’ve probably heard of. And who would guess his way to salvation would depend on leading a last-ditch fight against a shipful of mutineers?<br><br>For other castaway stories inspired by “Robinson Crusoe”, listen to “The Swiss Family Robinson” (http://snipurl.com/swiss_family) and “The Mysterious Island” (http://snipurl.com/mysterious_island). (Summary by Mark F. Smith)

Robinson Crusoë weet 27 jaren, 2 maanden en 20 dagen te overleven op een onbewoond eiland, met een papagaai, een regenscherm en een grote muts van geitenvel.

The full title of the novel is <i>Roxana: The Fortunate Mistress Or, a History of the Life and Vast Variety of Fortunes of Mademoiselle de Beleau, Afterwards Called the Countess de Wintselsheim</i>. The novel concerns the story of an unnamed "fallen woman", the second time Defoe created such a character (the first was a similar female character in Moll Flanders). In Roxana, a woman who takes on various pseudonyms, including "Roxana," describes her fall from wealth thanks to abandonment by a "fool" of a husband and movement into prostitution upon his abandonment. Roxana moves up and down through the social spectrum several times. (Summary by Wikipedia)

11Robinson Crusoe in Words of One Syllable (Version 2)

By Lucy Aikin and Daniel Defoe

This book is a fictional autobiography of the title character — a castaway who spends 28 years on a remote tropical island near Trinidad, encountering cannibals, captives, and mutineers before being rescued. You know the story; but do you know the story told in words of one syllable? Here Lucy Aikin under the pen name of Mary Godolphin retells Daniel Defoe's famous tale of danger and solitude and resourcefulness. Because of the simpler words, this might be a good book for listeners where English is not their first language. By Lucy Aikin and Daniel Defoe. (Summary by Phil Chenevert)

12Storm

By Daniel Defoe

<i>The Storm</i> (1704) holds a special place in the writings of Daniel Defoe. Widely considered a founding document of modern journalism, <i>The Storm</i> narrates the calamitous events of November 1703 that are framed by the author in the first four chapters. These are followed by verbatim eyewitness accounts, solicited from survivors through a newspaper advertisement that Defoe placed shortly after the hurricane struck. Defoe is primarily known for his later fiction, loosely based on historical calamities, such as his <i>Journal of the Plague Year</i> (1722), and by fictionalized novels purporting to be first-person accounts, including <i>Robinson Crusoe</i> (1719) and <i>Moll Flanders </i>(1722). It can be argued that <i>The Storm</i> was the journalistic crucible in which the master realist Defoe forged his later novelistic artistry, with its penchant for "the telling detail." In fact, his fiction novel <i>The Plague Year</i> remains a required reading for journalism students to this day, side-by-side with the non-fiction account of <i>The Storm</i>. –Denny Sayers

Robinson Crusoe, único superviviente de un naufragio, es arrastrado por las olas a la playa de una isla desierta. Robinson, confiando en su ingenio, hará de todo para poder sobrevivir. Pero un día descubre que no está completamente solo en la isla... (Tux)

14History of the Devil

By Daniel Defoe

Also known as "A Political History of the Devil" This book is divided into two parts: first, the history of the devil from his fall from heaven up to the time the book was written and second about his private conduct. Partly funny, partly religious, and partly critical of what was written before, the book is purely delightful to read. This is a lesser known work by the author of Robinson Crusoe and Moll Flanders. ( Stav Nisser.)

15Best Ghost Stories

By E. F. Benson, Ambrose Bierce, Algernon Blackwood, Edward Bulwer-Lytton, Ellis Parker Butler, Daniel Defoe, M. R. James, Rudyard Kipling, Leopold Kompert, Brander Matthews, Vincent O'Sullivan, Arthur B. Reeve and Various

Collected together here by master anthologist Joseph Lewis French are some of the finest ghost stories ever to be put to paper. From the early influential tales of Daniel Defoe and Edward Bulwer-Lytton to more contemporary masters of the terror tale such as M. R. James, Algernon Blackwood and E. F. Benson, this collection brings together a bounty of riches sure to keep you awake into the dark, dreadful night! - Summary by Ben Tucker

16Moll Flanders - Version 2

By Daniel Defoe

This warm and witty novel presents itself as the first person narration of an immensely likeable and resourceful woman who, born in the most shameful of circumstances, comes to be desired by, and indeed married to, many men, in the course of her life — some of whom she inveigles into marriage on false pretences — who, when all else fails, resorts to an extraordinarily successful life of crime, pulling many ingenious heists until at last she is nabbed and faced with a real prospect of being hanged. Moll's descriptions of the amorous inclinations of males are often very funny — and not the least part of the joke here, of course, is that Moll's voice itself is actually the creation of a male. (Summary by Peter Dann)

17Robinson Crusoe (Version 3)

By Daniel Defoe

Robinson Crusoe[a] (/ˈkruːsoʊ/ KROO-soh) is an English adventure novel by Daniel Defoe, first published on 25 April 1719. Written with a combination of epistolary, confessional, and didactic forms, the book follows the title character (born Robinson Kreutznaer) after he is cast away and spends 28 years on a remote tropical desert island near the coasts of Venezuela and Trinidad, encountering cannibals, captives, and mutineers before being rescued. The story has been thought to be based on the life of Alexander Selkirk, a Scottish castaway who lived for four years on a Pacific island called "Más a Tierra" (now part of Chile) which was renamed Robinson Crusoe Island in 1966. Pedro Serrano is another real-life castaway whose story might have inspired the novel. The first edition credited the work's protagonist Robinson Crusoe as its author, leading many readers to believe he was a real person and that the book was a non-fiction travelogue. Despite its simple narrative style, Robinson Crusoe was well received in the literary world and is often credited as marking the beginning of realistic fiction as a literary genre. Some allege it is a contender for the first English novel. Before the end of 1719, the book had already run through four editions, and it has gone on to become one of the most widely published books in history, spawning so many imitations, not only in literature but also in film, television, and radio, that its name is used to define a genre, the Robinsonade.

18Leben und Abenteuer des weltbekannten Seeräubers Bob Singleton

By Daniel Defoe

Dieses Reise und Seefahrer Abenteuer erzählt die Geschichte von einem jungen Mann, der als Kind den Eltern geraubt worden ist und unter Zigeunern aufwächst. Er geräht and die See und lernt die Seefahrt, die ihn auf viele Abenteuer führt. - Summary by Katharina21