Tour Through the Whole Island of Great Britain (eBook)

Daniel Defoe (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2005
736 Seiten
Penguin Books Ltd (Verlag)
978-0-14-196235-1 (ISBN)

Infos

Britain in the early eighteenth century: an introduction that is both informative and imaginative, reliable and entertaining. To the tradition of travel writing Daniel Defoe brings a lifetime's experience as a businessman, soldier, economic journalist and spy, and his Tour (1724-6) is an invaluable source of social and economic history. But this book is far more than a beautifully written guide to Britain just before the industrial revolution, for Defoe possessed a wild, inventive streak that endows his work with astonishing energy and tension, and the Tour is his deeply imaginative response to a brave new economic world. By employing his skills as a chronicler, a polemicist and a creative writer keenly sensitive to the depredations of time, Defoe more than achieves his aim of rendering 'the present state' of Britain.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 25.8.2005
• Einführung: Pat Rogers
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Essays / Feuilleton
• Themenwelt: Reisen ► Reiseberichte
• ISBN-10: 0-14-196235-6 / 0141962356
• ISBN-13: 978-0-14-196235-1 / 9780141962351