Daniel Defoe, master of fiction
Subtitle: his life and ideas
By: Maximillian E. Novak.
Publisher: Oxford
Published: 2001
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 756
Subjects: Defoe, Daniel, -- 1661?-1731.
Description: "Daniel Defoe: Master of Fictions is the first biography to view Defoe's complex life through the angle of vision that is most important to us as modern readers - his career as a writer. From his earliest collection of brief stories, which he presented to his future wife under the sobriquet Bellmour, to his Compleat English Gentleman, left unpublished at his death, Defoe was pre-eminently a creator of fictions. This life gives us, for the first time, a full understanding of the thought and personal experience that went into such great works as Crusoe, Moll Flanders, and Roxana."--Jacket.
Notes: 155,857