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Roxana

Author : Daniel Defoe
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 118 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (92 download)

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Download or read book Roxana written by Daniel Defoe and published by . This book was released on 2021-02-16 with total page 118 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An un-named baby girl is born in France but is relocated to England with her parents when they flee, because they are being persecuted for their religious beliefs. Although she is not given a name, and is referred to as "the woman", we discover later in the novel that her name is Roxana. Roxana grows up in England but at the age of fifteen marries a man who is a narcissist, making him a very bad husband. Together they have five children, whom Roxana struggles to raise whilst her husband blows through their fortune. Roxana is penniless and goes to his family to ask for help, but with the exception of an old aunt, his family refuse her. Roxana's maid Amy also sticks by her, and offers to remain in her service even though there is no money to pay her. When Roxana had money she was generous and benevolent to those who were not so lucky, and now that their situations are reversed, they also pitch in to help. They pay a visit to her husband's family and manage to extract some money from them for Roxana. Roxana's five children go to live with the old aunt.

Duplex

Author : Kathryn Davis
Publisher : Graywolf Press
ISBN 13 : 1555970818
Total Pages : 195 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (559 download)

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Download or read book Duplex written by Kathryn Davis and published by Graywolf Press. This book was released on 2013-09-03 with total page 195 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: * A New York Times Book Review Notable Book of the Year * A San Francisco Chronicle, Kansas City Star, St. Louis Post-Dispatch, New Hampshire Public Radio, Flavorwire, Vol. 1 Brooklyn, Largehearted Boy, and Slaughterhouse 90210 Best Book of the Year * * A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice * One of The Millions's Most Anticipated Books of 2013 * Mary and Eddie are meant for each other—but love is no guarantee, not in these suburbs. Like all children, they exist in an eternal present; time is imminent, and the adults of the street live in their assorted houses like numbers on a clock. Meanwhile, ominous rumors circulate, and the increasing agitation of the neighbors points to a future in which all will be lost. Soon a sorcerer's car will speed down Mary's street, and as past and future fold into each other, the resonant parenthesis of her girlhood will close forever. Beyond is adulthood, a world of robots and sorcerers, slaves and masters, bodies without souls. In Duplex, Kathryn Davis, whom the Chicago Tribune has called "one of the most inventive novelists at work today," has created a coming-of-age story like no other. Once you enter the duplex—that magical hinge between past and future, human and robot, space and time—there's no telling where you might come out.

Roxana, the Fortunate Mistress

Author : Daniel Defoe
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 356 pages
Book Rating : 4.X/5 (3 download)

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Download or read book Roxana, the Fortunate Mistress written by Daniel Defoe and published by . This book was released on 1931 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Roxana, the Fortunate Mistress, Or, A History of the Life and Vast Variety of Fortunes of Mademoiselle de Beleau

Author : Daniel Defoe
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 9780192834591
Total Pages : 406 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (345 download)

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Download or read book Roxana, the Fortunate Mistress, Or, A History of the Life and Vast Variety of Fortunes of Mademoiselle de Beleau written by Daniel Defoe and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1998 with total page 406 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is intended for students of English Literature, especially eighteenth-century, from sixth-form up.

Moll Flanders and Roxana

Author : Daniel Defoe
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781978043381
Total Pages : 492 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (433 download)

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Download or read book Moll Flanders and Roxana written by Daniel Defoe and published by . This book was released on 2017-10-07 with total page 492 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Fortunes & Misfortunes of the Famous Moll Flanders is a novel by Daniel Defoe, 1st published in 1722. It purports to be the true account of the life of the eponymous Moll, detailing her exploits from birth until old age. The novel's full title gives some insight into this & the outline of the plot: "The Fortunes & Misfortunes of the Famous Moll Flanders, &c. Who was Born in Newgate, & during a Life of continu'd Variety for Threescore Years, besides her Childhood, was Twelve Year a Whore, five times a Wife (whereof once to her own Brother), Twelve Year a Thief, Eight Year a Transported Felon in Virginia, at last grew Rich, liv'd Honest, & died a Penitent. Written from her own Memorandums." Roxana (1724), Defoe's last and darkest novel, is the autobiography of a woman who has traded her virtue, at first for survival, and then for fame and fortune. Its narrator tells the story of her own 'wicked' life as the mistress of rich and powerful men. A resourceful adventuress, she is also an unforgiving analyst of her own susceptibilities, who tells us of the price she pays for her successes. Endowed with many seductive skills, she is herself seduced: by money, by dreams of rank, and by the illusion that she can escape her own past. Unlike Defoe's other penitent anti-heroes, however, she fails to triumph over these weaknesses. Roxana's fame lies not only in the heroine's 'vast variety of fortunes', but in her attempts to understand the sometimes bitter lessons of her life as a 'Fortunate Mistress'. Defoe's achievement was to invent, in 'Roxana', a gripping story-teller as well as a gripping story.

The Life, Adventures & Piracies of the Famous Captain Singleton (辛格頓船長)

Author : Daniel Defoe
Publisher : Hyweb Technology Co. Ltd.
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 960 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Life, Adventures & Piracies of the Famous Captain Singleton (辛格頓船長) written by Daniel Defoe and published by Hyweb Technology Co. Ltd.. This book was released on 2011-04-15 with total page 960 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: PMThat all Defoe's novels, with the exception of 'Robinson Crusoe,'' should have been covered with the dust of neglect for many generations, is a plain proof of how much fashions in taste affect the popularity of the British classics. It is true that three generations or so ago, Defoe's works were edited by both Sir Walter Scott and Hazliit, and that this masterly piece of realism, 'Captain Singleton,' was reprinted a few years back in 'The Camelot Classics,' but it is safe to say that out of every thousand readers of 'Robinson Crusoe' only one or two will have even heard of the 'Memoirs of a Cavalier,' 'Colonel Jack,' 'Moll Flanders,' or 'Captain Singleton'.

Robinson Crusoe

Author : Daniel Defoe
Publisher : Strelbytskyy Multimedia Publishing
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 337 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Robinson Crusoe written by Daniel Defoe and published by Strelbytskyy Multimedia Publishing. This book was released on 2020-01-14 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Almost 300 years ago this fascinating novel was published with probably the most long title: The Life and Strange Surprizing Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, of York, Mariner: Who Lived Eight and Twenty Years, All Alone in an 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 Deliver’d by Pyrates. Written by Himself. For hundreds of years this book impresses the imagination by displaying of courage, ingenuity, vitality of the person, caught in such a binding that it is difficult to imagine. But still it is so exciting to imagine, while reading a book in a cozy room. Pretty illustrations by Vladislav Kolomoets provide you with new impressions from reading this legendary story.

Old Greek Stories

Author : James Baldwin
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Old Greek Stories written by James Baldwin and published by . This book was released on 1895 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Fortunate Son

Author : Walter Mosley
Publisher : Little, Brown
ISBN 13 : 0759515484
Total Pages : 217 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (595 download)

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Download or read book Fortunate Son written by Walter Mosley and published by Little, Brown. This book was released on 2006-04-10 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In spite of remarkable differences, Eric and Tommy are as close as brothers. Eric, a Nordic Adonis, is graced by a seemingly endless supply of good fortune. Tommy is a lame black boy, cursed with health problems, yet he remains optimistic and strong.After tragedy rips their makeshift family apart, the lives of these boys diverge astonishingly: Eric, the golden youth, is given everything but trusts nothing; Tommy, motherless and impoverished, has nothing, but feels lucky every day of his life. In a riveting story of modern-day resilience and redemption, the two confront separate challenges, and when circumstances reunite them years later, they draw on their extraordinary natures to confront a common enemy and, ultimately, save their lives.

Life and Death Are Wearing Me Out

Author : Mo Yan
Publisher : Skyhorse Publishing Inc.
ISBN 13 : 1611454271
Total Pages : 602 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (114 download)

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Download or read book Life and Death Are Wearing Me Out written by Mo Yan and published by Skyhorse Publishing Inc.. This book was released on 2012-07 with total page 602 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Stripped of his possessions and executed as a result of Mao's Land Reform Movement in 1948, benevolent landowner Ximen Nao finds himself endlessly tortured in Hell before he is systematically reborn on Earth as each of the animals in the Chinese zodiac.

The Fortunate Mistress

Author : Daniel Defoe
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book The Fortunate Mistress written by Daniel Defoe and published by . This book was released on 1927 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Serious Reflections During the Life and Surprising Adventures of Robinson Crusoe

Author : Daniel Defoe
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 386 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Serious Reflections During the Life and Surprising Adventures of Robinson Crusoe written by Daniel Defoe and published by . This book was released on 1720 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of moral essays is a semi-sequel toRobinson Crusoe.It may or may not have been written by Daniel Defoe, this original work's author.

The Story of the Thirteen Colonies

Author : H. A. Guerber
Publisher : Good Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 433 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (57 download)

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Download or read book The Story of the Thirteen Colonies written by H. A. Guerber and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2019-11-22 with total page 433 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work is a history book of the original Thirteen Colonies of the United States. They were originally a group of British colonies on the Atlantic coast of North America, who fought the American Revolutionary War and formed the United States of America by declaring full independence. Just prior to declaring independence, the Thirteen Colonies in their traditional groupings were: New England (New Hampshire; Massachusetts; Rhode Island; Connecticut); Middle (New York; New Jersey; Pennsylvania; Delaware); Southern (Maryland; Virginia; North Carolina; South Carolina; and Georgia).

Roxana

Author : Daniel Defoe
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781258910570
Total Pages : 348 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (15 download)

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Download or read book Roxana written by Daniel Defoe and published by . This book was released on 2013-10 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a new release of the original 1931 edition.

Roxana

Author : Daniel Defoe
Publisher : Broadview Press
ISBN 13 : 146040162X
Total Pages : 420 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (64 download)

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Download or read book Roxana written by Daniel Defoe and published by Broadview Press. This book was released on 2009-04-14 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Almost three hundred years after its first publication, Roxana continues to challenge readers, who, though compelled by Roxana’s story, are often baffled by her complex relationships to her children, her fortune, and her vices. As one of Daniel Defoe’s four major fictions, Roxana has long been understood as central to the history of the novel, and provides readers with Defoe’s sharpest and most specific commentary on the complexities of life in seventeenth-century London. This edition offers a range of contemporary documents that will help readers understand the struggles of Roxana’s life as series of metaphoric engagements with pressing issues of her time.

Dressed in Fiction

Author : Clair Hughes
Publisher : Berg Publishers
ISBN 13 : 9781845201715
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (17 download)

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Download or read book Dressed in Fiction written by Clair Hughes and published by Berg Publishers. This book was released on 2005-12-01 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When we look closely at dress in a novel we begin to enrich our sense of the novel's historical and social context. More than this, wealth, class, beauty and moral rectitude can all be coded in fabric. In the modern novel, narratives are increasingly situated within the consciousness of characters, and it is the experience of dress that tells us about the context and the emotional, political and psychological values of the characters. Dressed in Fiction traces the deployment of dress in key fictional texts of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, from Daniel Defoe's Roxana to George Eliot's Middlemarch and Edith Wharton's The House of Mirth. Covering a range of topics, from the growth of the middle classes and the association of luxury with vice, to the reasons why wedding dresses rarely ever symbolize happiness, the book presents a unique study of the history of clothing through the most popular and influential literature of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.

Roxana: The Fortunate Mistress

Author : Daniel Defoe
Publisher : Phoemixx Classics Ebooks
ISBN 13 : 3986778306
Total Pages : 389 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (867 download)

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Download or read book Roxana: The Fortunate Mistress written by Daniel Defoe and published by Phoemixx Classics Ebooks. This book was released on 2021-10-31 with total page 389 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Roxana The Fortunate Mistress Daniel Defoe - Roxana: The Fortunate Mistress was Daniel Defoe's last and darkest novel; the autobiography of a woman who has traded her virtue, at first for survival, and then for fame and fortune. Its narrator tells the story of her own 'wicked' life as the mistress of rich and powerful men. A resourceful adventuress, she is also an unforgiving analyst of her own susceptibilities, who tells us of the price she pays for her successes. Endowed with many seductive skills, she is herself seduced: by money, by dreams of rank, and by the illusion that she can escape her own past.