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By 1705 already an established and tempestuous pamphleteer and journalist, this is a wonderful example of Defoe's direct and inventive style. Acknowledging its debt to prior works by Godwin and Wilkins, The Consolidator uses 'the lunar world to satirize England's political and economic abuses and to anticipate scientific inventions' (Gibson). Although most critics are content to analyse it as a prototype Gulliveriad, it is also a fascinating document in itself. Most of the work is dedicated to lengthy descriptions of the world in the Moon, given veracity through the claim that all of this…
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16 editions- Paperback · English · 2007Book Jungle · 156 pages · 9781604242577
- Paperback · English · 2007The Consolidator, or Memoirs of Sundry Transactions From the World in the MoonIndyPublish · 152 pages · 9781435328860
- Hardcover · English · 2007The Consolidator, or Memoirs of Sundry Transactions From the World in the MoonIndyPublish · 152 pages · 9781435328723
- Paperback · English · 2006The Consolidator, or Memoirs of Sundry Transactions from the World in the MoonIndyPublish.com · 152 pages · 9781421993805
- Hardcover · English · 20061st World Library · 228 pages · 9781421809205
- Hardcover · English · 2006The Consolidator, or Memoirs of Sundry Transactions from the World in the MoonIndyPublish.com · 152 pages · 9781421993898
FictionInterplanetary voyagesClassic LiteraturePolitics and governmentEarly works to 1800Fiction, politicalFiction, humorous, generalFiction, fantasy, general