{"product_id":"a-general-and-true-history-daniel-defoe-9781171428299","title":"A General and True History of the Lives and Actions of the Most Famous Highwaymen, Murderers, Pirates, \u0026C. Interspers'd with Several Remarkable Trials","description":"The 18th century was a wealth of knowledge, exploration and rapidly growing technology and expanding record-keeping made possible by advances in the printing press. In its determination to preserve the century of revolution, Gale initiated a revolution of its own: digitization of epic proportions to preserve these invaluable works in the largest archive of its kind. Now for the first time these high-quality digital copies of original 18th century manuscripts are available in print, making them highly accessible to libraries, undergraduate students, and independent scholars.\u003cbr\u003eWestern literary study flows out of eighteenth-century works by Alexander Pope, Daniel Defoe, Henry Fielding, Frances Burney, Denis Diderot, Johann Gottfried Herder, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, and others. Experience the birth of the modern novel, or compare the development of language using dictionaries and grammar discourses. \u003cbr\u003e++++\u003cbr\u003eThe 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: \u003cbr\u003e++++\u003cbr\u003eBritish Library\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eT226195\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn fact chiefly selections from 'A general history of the robberies and murders of the most notorious pyrates .. by Capt. Charles Johnson', i.e. Daniel Defoe. Vol. 1 is dated 1747 and vol. 2 1748. At end of vol. 1 \"The end of the first volume.\" Issued in parts, vol. 1 having 30 parts and vol. 2 with own part numbering, having 28 parts.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOxford: printed by R. Walker and W. Jackson, 1747-48. 2v.; 8\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Daniel Defoe\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1171428294\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781171428299\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Gale Ecco, Print Editions\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 08\/06\/2010\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 454\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.77lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.69h x 7.44w x 0.92d","brand":"Daniel Defoe","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48441889325311,"sku":"9781171428299","price":36.75,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_c7639ff4-4673-4d44-b1c0-a626866d5bb9.jpg?v=1777193688","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/a-general-and-true-history-daniel-defoe-9781171428299","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}