THis book contain collection of 19 books
1. The Life and Strange Surprising Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, of York, Mariner ; illustrated by N.C. Wyeth [1719]
2. The Life, Adventures and Piracies of the Famous Captain Singleton [1720]
3. A Journal of the Plague Year [1722]
4. The Fortunes and Misfortunes of the Famous Moll Flanders [1722]
5. Roxana: The Fortunate Mistress [1724]
6. Memoirs of a Cavalier : A Military Journal of the Wars in Germany, and the Wars in England. : From the Year 1632 to the Year 1648. [1724]
7. A General History of the Pyrates, From their First Rise and Settlement in the Island of Providence, to the Present Time (second edition; London: T. Warner, 1724)
8. The History of the Pyrates [1728]
9. Of Captain Misson and his Crew [1728]
10. An essay upon projects [1697]
11. The True-Born Englishman [1701]
12. The Shortest Way with the Dissenters [1702]
13. The Storm [1704]
14. The Consolidator; or, Memoirs of Sundry Transactions from the World in the Moon [1704]
15. A True Relation of the Apparition of Mrs. Veal [1706]
16. Atalantis Major [1711]
17. A tour through the whole island of Great Britain [1724-26]
18. Everybody's business is nobody's business [1725]
19. The History of the Devil [1726]
About the Author
Daniel Defoe
ournalist and novelist, son of a butcher in St. Giles, where he was born His father being a Dissenter, he was educated at a Dissenting college at Newington with the view of becoming a Presbyterian minister. He joined the army of Monmouth, and on its defeat was fortunate enough to escape punishment. In 1688 he joined William III. Before settling down to his career as a political writer, Defoe had been engaged in various enterprises as a hosier, a merchant-adventurer to Spain and Portugal, and a brickmaker, all of which proved so unsuccessful that he had to fly from his creditors. Having become known to the government as an effective writer, and employed by them, he was appointed Accountant in the Glass–Duty Office, 1659–1699.
Among his more important political writings are an Essay on Projects [1698], and The True-born Englishman [1701], which had a remarkable success. In 1702 appeared The Shortest Way with the Dissenters, written in a strain of grave irony which was, unfortunately for the author, misunderstood, and led to his being fined, imprisoned, and put in the pillory, which suggested his Hymns to the Pillory [1704]. Notwithstanding the disfavour with the government which these disasters implied, Defoe’s knowledge of commercial affairs and practical ability were recognised by his being sent in 1706 to Scotland to aid in the Union negotiations. In the same year Jure Divino, a satire, followed by a History of the Union [1709], and The Wars of Charles XII. [1715]. Further misunderstandings and disappointments in connection with political matters led to his giving up this line of activity, and, fortunately for posterity, taking to fiction.
