Daniel Defoe: His Life and Recently Discovered Writings: Extending from 1716 to 1729. [with Plates, Including a Portrait.]

Publisher Marketing: Title: Daniel Defoe: his life and recently discovered writings: extending from 1716 to 1729. [With plates, including a portrait.]Publisher: British Library, Historical Print EditionsThe British Library is the national library of the United Kingdom. It is one of the world's largest research libraries holding over 150 million items in all known languages and formats: books, journals, newspapers, sound recordings, patents, maps, stamps, prints and much more. Its collections include around 14 million books, along with substantial additional collections of manuscripts and historical items dating back as far as 300 BC. The FICTION & PROSE LITERATURE collection includes books from the British Library digitised by Microsoft. The collection provides readers with a perspective of the world from some of the 18th and 19th century's most talented writers. Written for a range of audiences, these works are a treasure for any curious reader looking to see the world through the eyes of ages past. Beyond the main body of works the collection also includes song-books, comedy, and works of satire. ++++The below data was compiled from various identification fields in the bibliographic record of this title. This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to insure edition identification: ++++ British Library Lee, William; Defoe, Daniel; 1869. 3 vol.; 8 . 12271.g.6. Contributor Bio:  Defoe, Daniel 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. Contributor Bio:  Lee, William Dr. William C. Y. Lee (Santa Clara, CA) is the Chairman of LinkAir, Inc. One of the original pioneers who developed wireless technology at Bell Labs, and world-renowned for his development of commercial CDMA technology, Dr. Lee is a technologist, innovator, teacher and writer. He is an honorable professor at three universities: Beijing University of Aeronautics and Aero Astronautics, Southwest Jiao Tong University (Chengdu), and Taiwan National Chiao Tung University. He is the author of the previous two editions of Mobile Cellular Telecommunications, as well as four other books.