Bundle: Defoe - Roxana, Tour Through the Whole Island of Great Britain (2006)

Bundle: Defoe - Roxana, Tour Through the Whole Island of Great Britain (2006)

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Bundle: Defoe - Roxana, Tour Through the Whole Island of Great Britain (2006)
Folio Society
Travel

Bundle: Defoe - Roxana, Tour Through the Whole Island of Great Britain

Daniel Defoe

£23.99
Printing year Not Known
First edition Not Known
Binding Leather
Illustrator Clare Melinsky
Volumes 2
Weight 4 Kg
Condition Very Good
Condition notes In very good overall condition. Books - like new, a few very small dents to case of Roxana.

Edition details

A bundle of two Daniel Defoe books bound by the Folio Society. Includes: - A Tour Through the Whole Island of Great Britain by Daniel Defoe . 2nd. edition. Edited by W.R.Owens and A.J.Coulson. 160 integrated illustrations. Quarter bound in dark green buckram with cloth sides blocked with a gilt map. Dark green pictorial slipcase. 524pp. 27.2x19.7cm. A Tour Thro' the Whole Island of Great Britain is an account of his travels by English author Daniel Defoe, first published in three volumes between 1724 and 1727. Other than Robinson Crusoe, Tour was Defoe's most popular and financially successful work during the eighteenth century. - Roxana, The Fortunate Mistress by Daniel Defoe. Illustrated by Clare Melinsky. Bound in purple image blocked cloth. Frontispiece and 7olour & b&w illustrations. 316pp. 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 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. The novel's drama 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. This edition uses the rare first edition text, with a new introduction, detailed notes, textual history, and a map.

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