Daniel Defoe

Imagine a plague so horrific, only forty percent of the population lived to tell the tale. Written as a first-person account of the world's most dangerous pandemic, the mysterious narrator bears witness to a society that has seemingly given up hope during terrifying times. . From mounting death tolls, to horrific bodily ailments, contracting the Black Plague was considered a fate worse than death. Combining his own experiences within each of the...

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Life is hard for Moll Flanders. As a teenager, Moll is seduced and marries young. When her husband dies a few years later, leaving Moll and her children without support, Moll embarks on a quest to find a man with money.

Tras un saqueo de piratas y un trágico accidente en el océano atlántico, un joven naufrago ingles se encontrará varado en una isla remota por 28 años ¿Que tan fácil le será adaptarse a esta peligrosa situación? Representado en el cine por Pierce Brosnan en 1997, Robinson Crusoe es la historia de un joven marino de York, quien terminará durante el siglo XVII en una isla caribeña sobreviviendo a la mala suerte, la soledad y a tribus caníbales...

"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 and fortune. Its narrator tells the story of her own 'wicked' life as the mistress of rich and powerful men. Endowed with many seductive skills, she is herself seduced: by money, by dreams of rank, and by the illusion that she can escape her own past. Unlike Defoe's other penitent anti-heroes, however,...

During one of his several adventurous voyages in the 1600s, an Englishman becomes the sole survivor of a shipwreck and lives on a deserted island for more than twenty-eight years.