ISBN10: 0140430660, ISBN13: 9780140430660, [publisher: Penguin Classics] Softcover 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. Autor: Pat Rodgers Fecha: 2005-08-25 ISBN: 9780140430660
[Madrid, Spain] [Publication Year: 1978]
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