Adventure Classics - Premium Collection

This carefully crafted eBook: "Adventure Classics-Premium Collection: 8 Novels in One Volume (Illustrated)" is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents: Novels: "Robinson Crusoe"—Defoe's most famous novel tells the story of a man's shipwreck on a desert island for thirty years and his subsequent adventures. "Colonel Jack"—Colonel Jack follows an orphaned boy from a life of poverty and crime to colonial prosperity, military and marital imbroglios, and religious conversion, driven by a problematic notion of becoming a "gentleman." "Captain Singleton"—an adventure story that covers a traversal of Africa and taps into the contemporary fascination with piracy. "Moll Flanders"—The titular heroine appears as a whore, bigamist, and thief, commits adultery and incest, and yet manages to retain the reader's sympathy. "Roxana: The Fortunate Mistress"—The novel follows the adventures of a young woman from wealth, to prostitution, to freedom. "The Consolidator"—In this satirical novel, which mixes fantasy with political and social satire, Defoe's narrator travels to the moon. "Memoirs of a Cavalier"—This novel is set during the Thirty Years' War and the English Civil War. It is presented as a military journal of the Wars in Germany and England. "The Farther Adventures of Robinson Crusoe"—The sequel to "Robinson" describes how Crusoe traveled back in Bedford.