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Title: Daniel Defoe-Master of Fictions: His Life and Ideas by Maximillian E. Novak ISBN: 0-19-812686-7 Publisher: Oxford University Press Pub. Date: 01 May, 2001 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $60.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 3 (1 review)
Rating: 3
Summary: Biography or Bibliography?
Comment: Before reading this book, I knew Daniel Defore only through his exciting fiction: Robinson Crusoe, Moll Flanders, etc.
It turns out that Defoe also has an exciting life: struggling merchant in and out of bankruptcy, political pamphleteer, pilloried for slander, government spy, and so on.
Sadly, though you can pick the interesting elements of Defoe's life out of this work, it takes some effort. Novak's book is really a lengthy analysis of Defoe through his writings and spends much more time discussing the polemical meaning of various poems than, say, Defoe's relationship with his wife, or his travel, or his education.
In fact, all aspects of Defoe's life are really only described in this biography insofar as they can be accessed through Defoe's writings. This makes the book -- whose scholarship I do not fault -- tedious and not very easy to read as biography.
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Title: How the Idea of Religious Toleration Came to the West by Perez Zagorin ISBN: 0691092702 Publisher: Princeton University Press Pub. Date: 01 October, 2003 List Price(USD): $29.95 |
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Title:Grand Illusion - Criterion Collection ASIN: 0780020707 Publisher: Criterion Collection Pub. Date: 23 November, 1999 List Price(USD): $39.95 Comparison N/A, buy it from Amazon for $34.76 |
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Title: W. B. Yeats, a Life: II: The Arch-Poet, 1915-1939 (WB YEATS A LIFE) by R. F. Foster ISBN: 0198184654 Publisher: Oxford University Press Pub. Date: 01 October, 2003 List Price(USD): $45.00 |
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Title: The Liberated Bride by A.B. Yehoshua, Hillel Halkin ISBN: 0151006539 Publisher: Harcourt Pub. Date: 03 November, 2003 List Price(USD): $27.00 |
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Title: Human Accomplishment: The Pursuit of Excellence in the Arts and Sciences, 800 B.C. to 1950 by Charles Murray ISBN: 006019247X Publisher: HarperCollins Pub. Date: 21 October, 2003 List Price(USD): $29.95 |
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