Overview
Covers Britain in the early eighteenth century.
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.
- | Author: Daniel Defoe
- | Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
- | Publication Date: May 25, 1978
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- | Binding: Paperback / softback
- | ISBN-13: 9780140430660
- | ISBN-10: 0140430660
