Memoirs of a Cavalier ...: (Oxford English Novels) - Hardcover

Defoe, Daniel.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0192553631 ISBN 13: 9780192553638

Publisher: Oxford University Press, 1972

Synopsis

Daniel Defoe is, perhaps, best known to us as the author of Robinson Crusoe, a book which has been the delight of generations of boys and girls ever since the beginning of the eighteenth century. For it was then that Defoe lived and wrote, being one of the new school of prose writers which grew up at that time and which gave England new forms of literature almost unknown to an earlier age. Defoe was a vigorous pamphleteer, writing first on the Whig side and later for the Tories in the reigns of William III and Anne. He did much to foster the growth of the newspaper, a form of literature which henceforth became popular.

About this title

Book Description:

Originally published in 1908 as part of the English Literature for Schools series, this book contains the 1922 reprint of selections from Daniel Defoe's novel about the English Civil War. O'Neill supplies an introduction on the writing of the novel as well as critical notes on the text at the end of the volume.

About the Author:

Daniel Defoe, born Daniel Foe, was an English trader, writer, journalist, pamphleteer, and spy, most famous for his novel Robinson Crusoe.

About this edition

• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Publication date: 1972
• ISBN 10: 0192553631
• ISBN 13: 9780192553638
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1