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Selected Writings of Daniel Defoe

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  • Date Published: May 1975
  • availability: Available
  • format: Paperback
  • isbn: 9780521099318

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  • Paradoxically, Daniel Defoe is diminished by his popularity as the author of a handful of important novels, since the remainder of his voluminous writings suffer undue neglect. Fully to understand him he should be taken whole but his authorship of over 500 publications renders this feat well nigh impossible. The purpose of this selection, then, is to enable the reader to make or renew the acquaintance of Defoe on some of his favourite topics such as trade and politics, manners and morality, in poetry as well as prose, and in works like A True Relation of the Apparition of One Mrs Veal and Memoirs of a Cavalier, which are characteristic blends of fact and fiction. Equipped with the insights possible from this sample, the reader - it is hoped - will return to the major novels with a keener appreciation of their distinctive quality and a livelier sense of their author.

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    • Date Published: May 1975
    • format: Paperback
    • isbn: 9780521099318
    • length: 300 pages
    • dimensions: 216 x 140 x 17 mm
    • weight: 0.38kg
    • availability: Available
  • Table of Contents

    Preface
    Acknowledgment
    Note on the text
    Defoe's life: a chronological survey
    Introduction
    The Selections: from An Essay Upon Projects
    An Argument Shewing, That a Standing Army...
    From The True-Born Englishman
    From Legion's Memorial
    The Shortest-Way with the Dissenters
    From A Hymn to the Pillory
    Letter to Robert Harley
    From A Review
    A True Relation of the Apparition of One Mrs Veal
    Letters to Robert Harley
    And What if the Pretender Should Come?
    An Appeal to Honour and Justice
    From The Family Instructor
    Letter to Charles de la Faye
    From Memoirs of a Cavalier
    From The Complete English Tradesman
    From The History of the Pyrates: of Captain Bellamy
    From The Compleat English Gentleman
    Letter to Henry Baker
    Notes.

  • Editor

    James T. Boulton, University of Birmingham

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