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The prophet [Khalil Gibran]
Treasure Island [Robert Louis Stevenson]
White fang [Jack London]
The Time machine [H. G. Wells]
The Battle of Life [Charles Dickens]
The Adventure of Sherlock Holmes [Arthur Conan Doyle]
The Three Musketeers [Alexandre Dumas]
The adventures of Pinocchio [Carlo Collodi]
Robinson Crusoe [Daniel Defoe]
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn [Mark Twain]
"I presume we need make no Apology for giving the Name of a History to the following Sheets, though they contain nothing but the Actions of a Parcel of Robbers." -from the book
This work was published in 1724 under the pseudonym Captain Charles Johnson by an unknown British author, usually assumed to be Daniel DeFoe. This work is the prime source for the biographies of many well-known pirates of that era and shaped the popular notions about pirates of the day. Included are Blackbeard, Black Bart, Jolly Roger, Anne Bonny (aka Anne Bonn), Edward Teach, Henry Avery, Mary Read, and many more.
"This collection of brief biographies reads like a Who's Who? of piracy...The book that launched a thousand pirate stories...A must-read for armchair swashbucklers."-Amazon.com, editorial review
The plague of 1665 was followed by the Great Fire of London in 1666: great disasters evoking great responses. Those events re-fashioned the London landscape, and Defoe's A Journal of the Plague Year re-fashioned English literature.
Daniel Defoe (1659 or 1661 - 1731) was an English writer and journalist who gained enduring fame for his novel Robinson Crusoe. In 1665, the bubonic plague swept through London, claiming nearly 100,000 victims. In ‘A Journal of the Plague Year’, first published in 1722, Defoe chronicles the progress of the epidemic. His fictional narrator traverses a city with deserted streets and alleyways, where the houses of death have crosses daubed on their doors. He described the panic among the inhabitants of the city as fear, isolation and hysteria reign. Defoe identifies specific neighborhoods, streets, and even houses in which the horrific events took place. Well-researched, the book also provides tables of casualty figures and discusses the reality of various accounts heard by the narrator.
Daniel Defoe (1659 or 1661 - 1731) was an English writer and journalist who gained enduring fame for his novel Robinson Crusoe. In 1665, the bubonic plague swept through London, claiming nearly 100,000 victims. In ‘A Journal of the Plague Year’, first published in 1722, Defoe chronicles the progress of the epidemic. His fictional narrator traverses a city with deserted streets and alleyways, where the houses of death have crosses daubed on their doors. He described the panic among the inhabitants of the city as fear, isolation and hysteria reign. Defoe identifies specific neighborhoods, streets, and even houses in which the horrific events took place. Well-researched, the book also provides tables of casualty figures and discusses the reality of various accounts heard by the narrator.
"Another plague year would reconcile all these differences; a close conversing with death, or with diseases that threaten death, would scum off the gall from our tempers, remove the animosities among us, and bring us to see with differing eyes than those which we looked on things with before."
In 1665, London was struck by the bubonic plague, an epidemic that was the last major instance of the bubonic plague in England. This instance of the plague killed 100,000 people over a year and a half, and was transmitted through rats that ran through the city.
A Journal of the Plague Year was presented as an eyewitness account of the epidemic through the eyes of Londoners, though Daniel DeFoe was only a child during the plague. This book was likely based on the journals and writings of his uncle, but is written with factual specificity and authority that place it among other contemporary accounts of the year. Whether it should be called fiction or nonfiction has been widely debated due to its astonishing amount of factual details, but its ultimate fictitious nature of the authorship.
This journal, whether considered fact or fiction, remains relevant centuries later in a world experiencing similar events and casualties. The words within the journal echo the same sentiments as those experiencing the modern pandemic have felt and expressed. Delving into the observations of the past generations gives current readers a sense of shared suffering through the centuries, and may impart retroactive wisdom that is remarkably relevant for current times.
Zwei spannende Klassiker der Abenteuerliteratur aufwändig vertont:
Robinson Crusoe
- Ich bin Robinson Crusoe
- Hier bin ich 1659 gelandet
- Freitag und ich
Die Schatzinsel
- Teil 1
- Teil 2
Stories are one of mankind’s greatest artistic achievements. Whether written down or spoken they have an ability to capture our imagination and thoughts, and take us on incredible journeys in the space of a phrase and the turn of a page.Within a few words of text or speech, new worlds and characters form, propelling a narrative to a conclusion with intricate ease. Finely crafted, perfectly formed these Miniature Masterpieces, at first thought, seem remarkably easy to conjure up. But ask any writer and they will tell you that distilling the essence of narrative and characters into a short story is one of the hardest acts of their literary craft. Many attempt, but few achieve.
Classic Tales Of Horror offers up fifteen slices of powerful story-telling from the world’s great authors. From Henry James and Ambrose Bierce to Bram Stoker and Charles Dickens. Read by John Waite (BBC Radio 4), Sarah Douglas (Superman I & II), Michael Fenton-Stevens (Spitting Image, KYTV, Hitch-hiker’s Guide) and Ben Onwukwe (London’s Burning, Othello).
The Man & The Snake by Ambrose Bierce – Read by Sarah Douglas
Man-Size In Marble by E Nesbitt – Read by John Waite
The Moonlit Road by Ambrose Bierce – Read by Michael Fenton-Stevens
The Mysterious Mansion by Honore De Balzac – Read by Ben Onwukwe
The Judge’s House by Bram Stoker – Read by Sarah Douglas
Lost Face by Jack London – Read by John Waite
A Confession Found In A Prison by Charles Dickens – Read by Michael Fenton-Stevens
The Ghostly Rental by Henry James – Read by Michael Fenton-Stevens
The Phantom Coach by Amelia B Edwards – Read by John Waite
The Picture In The House by HP Lovecraft – Read by Ben Onwukwe
True Relation Of The Apparition Of One Mrs Veal by Daniel Defoe – Read by Sarah Douglas
Transformation by Mary Shelley – Read by Michael Fenton-Stevens
The Monkey’s Paw by WW Jacobs – Read by John Waite
William Wilson by Edgar Allan Poe – Read by Ben Onwukwe
Canon Alberic’s Scrapbook by M.R. James – Read by John Waite
Der Seemann Robinson Crusoe erleidet Schiffbruch und rettet sich auf eine einsame Insel, wo er viele Abenteuer erlebt. Ein spannendes Hörspiel nach dem weltbekannten Roman von Daniel Defoe.
The Life and Strange Surprising Adventures of Robinson Crusoe who lived twenty eight years all alone in a un-inhabited Island on the Coast of America, near the Mouth of the Great River of Oroonoque; Having been cast on Shore by Shipwreck, wherein all the Men perished but Himself. With An Account how he was at last as strangely delivered by Pirates, is a novel by Daniel Defoe, first published in 1719 and sometimes regarded as the first novel in English. The book is a fictional autobiography of the title character, an English castaway who spends 28 years on a remote tropical island near Venezuela, encountering Native Americans, captives, and mutineers before being rescued. This device, presenting an account of supposedly factual events, is known as a 'false document' and gives a realistic frame story.
Daniel Defoe - An Introduction. Defoe is most well known for his classic novels Robinson Crusoe and Moll Flanders. Born around 1659 he was also a journalist, a pamphleteer, a businessman, a spy - and a writer of short stories. His life was long and colourful covering all manner of fields and usually closely followed by political intrigue or unpaid bills. But the breath of his works are still highly regarded indeed his Journal Of A Plague Year is an important account of that disastrous year for England. His novels of course are regularly used as the basis of films and TV shows as well lauded for their contribution to the birth of novels as an art form. In these short stories Defoe succinctly emblazons his style upon subjects as diverse as apparitions, pirates and politics. This volume is brought to your ears by Richard Mitchley and Ghizela Rowe.
