Name: El Fantasma Provechoso y Otros Cuentos (in Spanish)
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Author: Daniel Defoe
ISBN: 9789505813841

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El Fantasma Provechoso y Otros Cuentos (in Spanish)

Type

Physical Book

Author

Daniel Defoe

Publisher

Colihue

Collection

los grandes para los chicos

Year

2003

Language

Spanish

Pages

Format

Paperback

ISBN

9789505813841

ISBN13

9789505813841

Edited in

Argentina

Synopsis "El Fantasma Provechoso y Otros Cuentos (in Spanish)"

Lo que Daniel Defoe, escritor inglés autor de la célebre novela Robinson Crusoe, vio en sus viajes, las historias que escuchó en los salones elegantes, o en la prisión inspiraron su prolífica obra. Es que la vida de este hijo de comerciantes en el turbulento Londres del siglo XVIII, fue siempre una aventura, como la de sus personajes. Se ofrecen aquí tres cuentos de fantasmas del destacado autor llenos de misterio y suspenso. La versión de Liliana Viola respeta el estilo y el ritmo de la narración; las ilustraciones de Sanyú se suman con plasticidad al texto.

Daniel Defoe

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English writer and journalist, Daniel Defoe is mainly known for his novel Robinson Crusoe (1719), though he also stood out for his role in the development of the press and for his political and social essays

Defoe left his studies to become a discreet businessman, whose activities were not entirely profitable, even receiving prison time for his debts

From 1695, after several years of exile due to his political ideology, he starts a new business dedicated to tiles and bricks which begins to work, providing his family—he was married and had six children—with greater economic stability

However, his political activism leads him to publish several essays or pamphlets that cost him days of imprisonment and the pillory. After returning to jail, Defoe begins working from a magazine supporting political factions of the government, participating in the English secret services

In 1719 he publishes his great novel, Robinson Crusoe, which allows him to launch into a literary career marked by successes such as The Adventures of Captain Singleton, A Journal of the Plague Year, or Moll Flanders. His popularity grew and his influence on subsequent generations of writers by enhancing the novelistic genre is notable

Despite all his success and his connections with the government, Defoe never achieved stable economic solvency for long. His death in 1731 occurred while fleeing from new creditors

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