15 Books

15 Books

by Daniel Defoe
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Publication Date: 12/08/2021

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This file includes: Books -- The Life Adventures and Piracies of the Famous Captain Singleton; The Complete English Tradesman; The Consolidator or, Memoirs of Sundry Transactions From the World in the Moon; An Essay Upon Projects; The Fortunate Mistress of a History of the Life of Mademoiselle Beleau, Known by the Name of Lady Roxana; From London to Land's End; The Further Adventures of Robinson Crusoe; The History of the Devil, as Well Ancient as Modern; History of the Plague in London; A Journal of the Plague Year; Memoirs of a Cavalier or a Military Journal of the Wars in Germany and the Wars in England from the Year 1632 to the Year 1648; The Military Memoirs of Captain George Carleton from the Dutch War 1672 in which He Served, to the Conclusion of the Peace at Utecht 1713; The Fortunes and Misfortunes of the Famous Moll Flanders; Robinson Crusoe; and Tour Through the Eastern Counties of England, 1722. Short Works -- Atalantis Major; Dickory Cronke; The History of the Remarkable Life of John Sheppard; Of Captain Mission; The True-Born Englishman: a Satire; and A Vindication of the Press. According to Wikipedia: "Daniel Defoe (c.1659 – 24 April 1731[1]), born Daniel Foe, was an English writer, journalist, and pamphleteer, who gained enduring fame for his novel Robinson Crusoe. Defoe is notable for being one of the earliest proponents of the novel, as he helped to popularise the form in Britain, and is even referred to by some as one of the founders of the English novel.[2] A prolific and versatile writer, he wrote more than five hundred books, pamphlets, and journals on various topics (including politics, crime, religion, marriage, psychology and the supernatural). He was also a pioneer of economic journalism."

ISBN:
9781455393268
9781455393268
Category:
Classic fiction
Format:
Epub (Kobo), Epub (Adobe)
Publication Date:
12-08-2021
Language:
English
Publisher:
Seltzer Books
Daniel Defoe

Daniel Defoe was a Londoner, born in 1660 at St Giles, Cripplegate, and son of James Foe, a tallow-chandler. He changed his name to Defoe from c. 1695. He was educated for the Presbyterian Ministry at Morton's Academy for Dissenters at Newington Green, but in 1682 he abandoned this plan and became a hosiery merchant in Cornhill. After serving briefly as a soldier in the Duke of Monmouth's rebellion, he became well established as a merchant and travelled widely in England, as well as on the Continent.

Between 1697 and 1701 he served as a secret agent for William III in England and Scotland, and between 1703 and 1714 for Harley and other ministers. During the latter period he also, single-handed, produced the Review, a pro-government newspaper. A prolific and versatile writer he produced some 500 books on a wide variety of topics, including politics, geography, crime, religion, economics, marriage, psychology and superstition. He delighted in role-playing and disguise, a skill he used to great effect as a secret agent, and in his writing he often adopted a pseudonym or another personality for rhetorical impact.

His first extant political tract (against James II) was published in 1688, and in 1701 appeared his satirical poem The True-Born Englishman, which was a bestseller. Two years later he was arrested for The Shortest-Way with the Dissenters, an ironical satire on High Church extremism, committed to Newgate and pilloried. He turned to fiction relatively late in life and in 1719 published his great imaginative work, Robinson Crusoe. This was followed in 1722 by Moll Flanders and A Journal of the Plague Year, and in 1724 by his last novel, Roxana.

His other works include A Tour Through the Whole Island of Great Britain, a guide-book in three volumes (1724–6; abridged Penguin edition, 1965), The Complete English Tradesman (1726), Augusta Triumphans, (1728), A Plan of the English Commerce (1728) and The Complete English Gentleman (not published until 1890). He died on 24 April 1731. Defoe had a great influence on the development of the English novel and many consider him to be the first true novelist.

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