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The Complete Daniel Defoe

The Complete Daniel Defoe

by Daniel Defoe
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Publication Date: 25/03/2014
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Daniel Defoe earned the title 'The Father of the Novel' when he wrote "Robinson Crusoe" - the first example of the modern popular novel as we know it.


He followed this success up with a huge number of other writings, which are included in this great anthology - covering novels, shorter fiction, poetry, travel writing, and his massive collection of non-fiction writing, including his seminal 'History of the Pyrates', which provides us with so much of our modern information on the subject of piracy.


Below is a list of the texts included in this beautifully edited and carefully formatted anthology:


Novels:




  1. The Life and Adventures of Robinson Crusoe (1719)




  2. The Farther Adventures of Robinson Crusoe (1719)




  3. Captain Singleton (1720)




  4. A Journal of the Plague Year (1722)




  5. The Fortunes and Misfortunes of the Famous Moll Flanders (1722)




  6. Roxana: The Fortunate Mistress (1724)




Short-Stories




  1. The Consolidator (1705)




  2. A True Relation of the Apparition of One Mrs Veal




  3. Atalantis Major (1711)




  4. A Short Narrative of His Grace John, Duke of Marlborough




  5. The King of Pirates




  6. Dickory Cronke (1719)




  7. Memoirs of a Cavalier (1720)




  8. The Memoirs of Alexander Ramkins




  9. The History and Adventures of Mr Duncan Campbell




Non-Fiction




  1. An Essay on Projects (1697)




  2. The Shortest Way With Dissenters (1702)




  3. The Storm (1704)




  4. The History of the Life and Adventures of John Sheppard (1724)




  5. Everybody's Business in Nobody's Business




  6. A General History of the Pyrates (1724)




  7. The History of the Devil (1726)




  8. The Complete English Tradesman (1726)




  9. The Military Memoirs of Captain George Carleton




  10. A Vindication of the Press




  11. Of Captain Mission and his crew (1728)




  12. The Education of Women




  13. An Essay on the Regulation of the Press




  14. Giving Alms to Charity




  15. An Appeal to Honour and Justice (1715)




  16. And What if the Pretender should come?




  17. Augusta Triumphans, or the way to make London the Most Flourishing City in the Universe




  18. An Humble Proposal to the People of England, for the Increase of their Trade




  19. Second Thoughts Are Best




  20. What if the Queen Should Die?




  21. Against the Insinuations of Papists and Jacobites in Favour of the Pretender




  22. Reasons Against the Succession of the House of Hanover




Travels




  1. A Tour Thro' the Whole Island of Great Britain




  2. From London to Land's End




  3. A New Voyage Round the World




Poetry



  1. The True-Born Englishman

ISBN:
9781628401073
9781628401073
Category:
Classic fiction
Format:
Epub (Kobo), Epub (Adobe)
Publication Date:
25-03-2014
Language:
English
Publisher:
Bybliotech
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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