The Collected Works of Daniel Defoe

The Collected Works of Daniel Defoe

by Daniel Defoe and Lucy Aikin
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Publication Date: 09/05/2016

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This comprehensive eBook presents the complete works or all the significant works - the Œuvre - of this famous and brilliant writer in one ebook - 12300 pages easy-to-read and easy-to-navigate: • The Life and Adventures of Robinson Crusoe • A Journal of the Plague Year • The Fortunes and Misfortunes of the Famous Moll Flanders • The Great English Short-Story Writers • The Life and Adventures of Robinson Crusoe () • A General History of the Pyrates: • The Fortunate Mistress • The Further Adventures of Robinson Crusoe • The Life, Adventures & Piracies of the Famous Captain Singleton • The History of the Devil, As Well Ancient as Modern: In Two Parts • History of the Plague in London • Robinson Crusoe • The King of Pirates • Memoirs of a Cavalier • The Life and Most Surprising Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, of York, Mariner () • The History of the Remarkable Life of John Sheppard • The Complete English Tradesman • Everybody's Business Is Nobody's Business • Robinson Crusoe — in Words of One Syllable and Lucy Aikin • From London to Land's End • Of Captain Mission • The True-Born Englishman • A True Relation of the Apparition of one Mrs. Veal • The Storm. • London in Don Manoel Gonzales • The Life and Adventures of Robinson Crusoe of York, Mariner • An American Robinson Crusoe • Tour through the Eastern Counties of England, • Moll Flanders • A New Voyage Round the World by a Course Never Sailed Before • The Consolidator; or, Memoirs of Sundry Transactions from the World in the Moon • Dickory Cronke: The Dumb Philosopher, or, Great Britain's Wonder • Atalantis Major • Second Thoughts are Best: Or a Further Improvement of a Late Scheme to Prevent Street Robberies • Military Memoirs of Capt. George Carleton • A Short Narrative of the Life and Actions of His Grace John, D. of Marlborogh • Augusta Triumphans • An Humble Proposal to the People of England, for the Increase of their Trade, and Encouragement of Their Manufactures • The History of the Life and Adventures of Mr. Duncan Campell • A Vindication of the Press • An Answer to a Question that Nobody thinks of, viz., But what if the Queen should Die? • An Appeal to Honour and Justice, Though It Be of His Worst Enemies. • Memoirs of Major Alexander Ramkins () • The Further Adventures of Robinson Crusoe • And What if the Pretender should Come? • A Seasonable Warning and Caution against the Insinuations of Papists and Jacobites in favour of the Pretender • The Lay-Man's Sermon upon the Late Storm • Reasons against the Succession of the House of Hanover with an Enquiry .etc.

ISBN:
9783956700538
9783956700538
Category:
Fiction
Format:
Epub (Kobo), Epub (Adobe)
Publication Date:
09-05-2016
Language:
English
Publisher:
PergamonMedia
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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