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Beskrivelse
Britain in the early eighteenth century: an introduction that is both informative and imaginative, reliable and entertaining. To the tradition of travel writing Daniel Defoe brings a lifetime's experience as a businessman, soldier, economic journalist and spy, and his Tour (1724-6) is an invaluable source of social and economic history. But this book is far more than a beautifully written guide to Britain just before the industrial revolution, for Defoe possessed a wild, inventive streak that endows his work with astonishing energy and tension, and the Tour is his deeply imaginative response to a brave new economic world.
By employing his skills as a chronicler, a polemicist and a creative writer keenly sensitive to the depredations of time, Defoe more than achieves his aim of rendering 'the present state' of Britain.
By employing his skills as a chronicler, a polemicist and a creative writer keenly sensitive to the depredations of time, Defoe more than achieves his aim of rendering 'the present state' of Britain.
Produktfakta
Språk |
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Innbinding | Heftet |
Utgitt | 1978 | Forfatter | Daniel Defoe, Pat Rogers |
Forlag |
Penguin Books Ltd |
ISBN | 9780140430660 |
Antall sider | 736 | Dimensjoner | 13cm x 19,6cm x 4,3cm |
Vekt | 532 gram | Originaltittel | A Tour Through the Whole Island of Great Britain |
Emner og form | Literary essays, Klassiske reiseskildringer |