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Àâòîð:

Çàãëàâèå:

A Tour Through the Whole Island of Great Bratain

Òèï íîñèòåëÿ:

Îäíîòîìíèê.

Ìåñòî èçäàíèÿ:

Harmondsworth

Èçäàòåëüñòâî:

Penguin Books

Ãîä èçäàíèÿ:

1979

Îáúåì:

730p.

Íàçâàíèå ñåðèè:

The Penguin English Library

Àííîòàöèÿ:

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.

ISBN:

0 14 043.066 0

ßçûê:

Àíãëèéñêèé

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Ðàçìåðû èçäàíèÿ:

18 cì.

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