Kings and Desperate Men: Life in Eighteenth Century EnglandVintage Books, 1942 - 298 sivua Life in eighteenth century England in the time of the French Revolution. |
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... DEFOE DEFOE wrote everything that contributes to his lasting reputation inside the space of a very few years . They were not the years of his physical prime : he was near sixty when he produced Robinson Crusoe , near sixty - five when ...
... DEFOE DEFOE wrote everything that contributes to his lasting reputation inside the space of a very few years . They were not the years of his physical prime : he was near sixty when he produced Robinson Crusoe , near sixty - five when ...
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... Defoe ever interrupted his writing to hunt for a word . No doubt Defoe would have welcomed a literary patron , but given his choice , he would have taken , any time , a business backer . If Defoe was sixty before he wrote anything great ...
... Defoe ever interrupted his writing to hunt for a word . No doubt Defoe would have welcomed a literary patron , but given his choice , he would have taken , any time , a business backer . If Defoe was sixty before he wrote anything great ...
Sivu 143
... Defoe's characters is what happens to them , not what they are , as it was Defoe's great gift , not to dissect them , but to drive them on . If his people are real , it is from the vigour with which Defoe could implant in others what ...
... Defoe's characters is what happens to them , not what they are , as it was Defoe's great gift , not to dissect them , but to drive them on . If his people are real , it is from the vigour with which Defoe could implant in others what ...
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