Captain Singleton (THORNDIKE PRESS LARGE PRINT PERENNIAL BESTSELLERS SERIES) - Hardcover

Defoe, Daniel

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0783886829 ISBN 13: 9780783886824

Publisher: Chivers Large print (Chivers, Windsor, Paragon & C, 2000

Synopsis

After being kidnapped as a child, Bob Singleton goes to sea at the age of twelve and makes and loses a fortune as an adventurer and a pirate

About this title

About the Author

English author Daniel Defoe was at times a trader, political activist, criminal, spy and writer, and is considered to be one of England s first journalists. A prolific writer, Defoe is known to have used at least 198 pen names over the course of a career in which he produced more than five hundred written works. Defoe is best-known for his novels detailing the adventures of the castaway Robinson Crusoe, which helped establish and popularize the novel in eighteenth century England. In addition to Robinson Crusoe, Defoe penned other famous works including Captain Singleton, A Journal of the Plague Year, Captain Jack, Moll Flanders and Roxana. Defoe died in 1731.

Edition details

• Publisher: Chivers Large print (Chivers, Windsor, Paragon & C
• Publication date: 2000
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0783886829
• ISBN 13: 9780783886824
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 399