Walmart Classics

by Daniel Defoe

In the 1990s, Walmart sold a series of classics for 2 for $1. All these books have the same ISBN (1559029838) and are difficult to enter into the Goodreads database. Rather than add this book to your bookshelf, please do one of the following:

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Genres: Fiction, Classics, Science Fiction

Paperback

First published January 1, 1985

About the author

Daniel Defoe was an English novelist, journalist, merchant, pamphleteer and spy. He is most famous for his novel Robinson Crusoe, published in 1719, which is claimed to be second only to the Bible in its number of translations. He has been seen as one of the earliest proponents of the English novel, and helped to popularise the form in Britain with others such as Aphra Behn and Samuel Richardson. Defoe wrote many political tracts, was often in trouble with the authorities, and spent a period in prison. Intellectuals and political leaders paid attention to his fresh ideas and sometimes consulted him.
Defoe was a prolific and versatile writer, producing more than three hundred works—books, pamphlets, and journals—on diverse topics, including politics, crime, religion, marriage, psychology and the supernatural. He was also a pioneer of business journalism and economic journalism.

Reviews

[Eric Williams · Rating 3 out of 5]

Like many Walmart products, these editions are cheap but serviceable. At least with these, you get good fiction for your dollar.

[Michelle Carr]

Wuthering Heights

[Nicholas Whyte · Rating 2 out of 5]

http://nwhyte.livejournal.com/2184559.html[return][return]To be honest it lost me in the second chapter, where the author attempts to engage our sympathy for poor Hepzibah, whose unearned income has dwindled to the extent that she must, horror of horrors, face the awful humiliation of opening a shop. Apparently H.P. Lovecraft was inspired by Hawthorne's luridly over-written style, and the hints of supernatural operation across the generations that form background colour to the story; if so, I think Lovecraft did it better, and certainly more subtly (not an adverb often used of Lovecraft). But the characters are dull and stereotypical, the narrative both meandering and predictable, and the whole thing just not worth reading.