Selected Writings of Daniel Defoe

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James T. Boulton
CUP Archive, 8 maj 1975 - 286
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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Introduction
1
The Selections
23
AN ARGUMENT SHEWING THAT A STANDING ARMY
35
FROM THE TRUEBORN ENGLISHMAN
82
FROM A HYMN TO THE PILLORY
100
Letter to Robert Harley
110
A TRUE RELATION OF THE APPARITION OF ONE
132
Letters to Robert Harley
142
AN APPEAL TO HONOUR AND JUSTICE
165
FROM THE FAMILY INSTRUCTOR
196
Letter to Charles de la Faye
208
FROM THE COMPLETE ENGLISH TRADESMAN
225
OF CAPTAIN
239
FROM THE COMPLEAT ENGLISH GENTLEMAN
247
Letter to Henry Baker
258
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