This second set in The Collected Writings of Daniel Defoe brings together some of his best-loved and most ambitious works, together with others which reveal the extraordinary range of his intellectual interests Three volumes are devoted to major historical writings by Defoe. His Memoirs of the Church of Scotland and History of the Union of Great Britain are included here.

Defoe's era saw much popular interest in the instructional handbook and behaviour manual. Bringing together a collection of Daniel Defoe's most important and influential instructional treatises, this work serves as an addition to the "Works of Daniel Defoe

One of the most appealing heroine's of English literature, Moll Flanders is born in 17th-century Newgate Prison, and is determined to face life head-on and raise herself out of abject poverty. Reissue.

Covers Britain in the early eighteenth century.

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...

Includes material on whore biography, court culture, poverty, and marriage, as well as Defoes alternative endings to the novel.

Daniel Defoe (c.1659 -1731) was a fiction writer, journalist, pamphleteer, and spy. He was one of the first authors to write a novel. 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. Robinson Crusoe is a fictional novel about an English castaway first published in 1719 is considered to be the first English novel. Crusoe spent 28 years on a tropical island encountering mutineers, cannibals, natives and captives. The novel is loosely based on Alexander...

Publisher: London:: Printed, and are to be Sold by Benj. Bragg at the Blue Ball in Ave-mary-lane Publication date: 1705 Subjects: Interplanetary voyages Notes: This is an OCR reprint. There may be numerous typos or missing text. There are no illustrations or indexes. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. You can also preview the book there.