The History of the Extraordinary Adventures, of Colonel Jaque, Vulgarly Call'd, Colonel Jack; who was Born a Gentleman, put Apprentice to a ... six and Twenty Years as a Thief Fifth Edition

by Daniel Defoe

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Western literary study flows out of eighteenth-century works by Alexander Pope, Daniel Defoe, Henry Fielding, Frances Burney, Denis Diderot, Johann Gottfried Herder, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, and others. Experience the birth of the modern novel, or compare the development of language using dictionaries and grammar discourses.
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British Library

T069664

The author of Robinson Crusoe = Daniel Defoe. Titlepage in red and black. With three pages of advertisements at the end. First published in 1722 as 'The history and remarkable life of the truly honourable Col. Jacque'.

London : printed by J. Applebee, for Ward and Chandler, and sold also at their shops in York, and at Scarborough-Spaw, 1739. vii,[1],317,[3]p. ; 8°

330 pages, Hardcover

Published April 25, 2018

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.