The Collected Works of Daniel Defoe E-Book

Daniel Defoe

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This comprehensive eBook presents the complete works or all the significant works - the Œuvre - of this famous and brilliant writer in one ebook - 12300 pages easy-to-read and easy-to-navigate: • The Life and Adventures of Robinson Crusoe • A Journal of the Plague Year • The Fortunes and Misfortunes of the Famous Moll Flanders • The Great English Short-Story Writers • The Life and Adventures of Robinson Crusoe () • A General History of the Pyrates: • The Fortunate Mistress • The Further Adventures of Robinson Crusoe • The Life, Adventures & Piracies of the Famous Captain Singleton • The History of the Devil, As Well Ancient as Modern: In Two Parts • History of the Plague in London • Robinson Crusoe • The King of Pirates • Memoirs of a Cavalier • The Life and Most Surprising Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, of York, Mariner () • The History of the Remarkable Life of John Sheppard • The Complete English Tradesman • Everybody's Business Is Nobody's Business • Robinson Crusoe — in Words of One Syllable and Lucy Aikin • From London to Land's End • Of Captain Mission • The True-Born Englishman • A True Relation of the Apparition of one Mrs. Veal • The Storm. • London in Don Manoel Gonzales • The Life and Adventures of Robinson Crusoe of York, Mariner • An American Robinson Crusoe • Tour through the Eastern Counties of England, • Moll Flanders • A New Voyage Round the World by a Course Never Sailed Before • The Consolidator; or, Memoirs of Sundry Transactions from the World in the Moon • Dickory Cronke: The Dumb Philosopher, or, Great Britain's Wonder • Atalantis Major • Second Thoughts are Best: Or a Further Improvement of a Late Scheme to Prevent Street Robberies • Military Memoirs of Capt. George Carleton • A Short Narrative of the Life and Actions of His Grace John, D. of Marlborogh • Augusta Triumphans • An Humble Proposal to the People of England, for the Increase of their Trade, and Encouragement of Their Manufactures • The History of the Life and Adventures of Mr. Duncan Campell • A Vindication of the Press • An Answer to a Question that Nobody thinks of, viz., But what if the Queen should Die? • An Appeal to Honour and Justice, Though It Be of His Worst Enemies. • Memoirs of Major Alexander Ramkins () • The Further Adventures of Robinson Crusoe • And What if the Pretender should Come? • A Seasonable Warning and Caution against the Insinuations of Papists and Jacobites in favour of the Pretender • The Lay-Man's Sermon upon the Late Storm • Reasons against the Succession of the House of Hanover with an Enquiry .etc.

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Table of Contents

The Life and Adventures of Robinson Crusoe

THE FURTHER ADVENTURES OF ROBINSON CRUSOE

CHAPTER I—REVISITS ISLAND

CHAPTER II—INTERVENING HISTORY OF COLONY

CHAPTER III—FIGHT WITH CANNIBALS

CHAPTER IV—RENEWED INVASION OF SAVAGES

CHAPTER V—A GREAT VICTORY

CHAPTER VI—THE FRENCH CLERGYMAN’S COUNSEL

CHAPTER VII—CONVERSATION BETWIXT WILL ATKINS AND HIS WIFE

CHAPTER VIII—SAILS FROM THE ISLAND FOR THE BRAZILS

CHAPTER IX—DREADFUL OCCURRENCES IN MADAGASCAR

CHAPTER X—HE IS LEFT ON SHORE

CHAPTER XI—WARNED OF DANGER BY A COUNTRYMAN

CHAPTER XII—THE CARPENTER’S WHIMSICAL CONTRIVANCE

CHAPTER XIII—ARRIVAL IN CHINA

CHAPTER XIV—ATTACKED BY TARTARS

CHAPTER XV—DESCRIPTION OF AN IDOL, WHICH THEY DESTROY

CHAPTER XVI—SAFE ARRIVAL IN ENGLAND

AN AMERICAN ROBINSON CRUSOE

FOR AMERICAN BOYS AND GIRLS

THE ADAPTATION, WITH ADDITIONAL INCIDENTS

CONTENTS

PREFATORY NOTE

AN AMERICAN ROBINSON CRUSOE

I

ROBINSON WITH HIS PARENTS

II

ROBINSON AS AN APPRENTICE

III

ROBINSON'S DEPARTURE

IV

ROBINSON FAR FROM HOME

ROBINSON'S VOYAGE

V

THE SHIPWRECK

VI

ROBINSON SAVED

VII

THE FIRST NIGHT ON LAND

VIII

ROBINSON ON AN ISLAND

IX

ROBINSON'S SHELTER

X

ROBINSON MAKES A HAT

XI

ROBINSON'S CALENDAR

XII

ROBINSON MAKES A HUNTING BAG

XIII

ROBINSON EXPLORES THE ISLAND

XIV

ROBINSON AS A HUNTER

XV

ROBINSON'S SHOES AND PARASOL

XVI

GETTING FIRE

XVII

ROBINSON MAKES SOME FURNITURE

XVIII

ROBINSON BECOMES A SHEPHERD

XIX

ROBINSON BUILDS A HOME FOR HIS GOAT

XX

ROBINSON GETS READY FOR WINTER

XXI

HOW ROBINSON LAYS UP A STORE OF FOOD

XXII

ROBINSON'S DIARY

XXIII

ROBINSON IS SICK

XXIV

ROBINSON'S BOWER

XXV

ROBINSON AGAIN EXPLORES HIS ISLAND

XXVI

ROBINSON AND HIS BIRDS

XXVII

ROBINSON GETS FIRE

XXVIII

ROBINSON MAKES BASKETS

XXIX

ROBINSON BECOMES A FARMER

XXX

ROBINSON AS POTTER

XXXI

ROBINSON AS BAKER

XXXII

ROBINSON AS FISHERMAN

XXXIII

ROBINSON BUILDS A BOAT

XXXIV

ROBINSON AS A SAILOR

XXXV

A DISCOVERY

XXXVI

THE LANDING OF THE SAVAGES

XXXVII

ROBINSON AS A TEACHER

XXXVIII

ANOTHER SHIPWRECK

XXXIX

SAVING THINGS FROM THE SHIP

XL

THE RETURN OF THE SAVAGES

XLI

DELIVERANCE AT LAST

XLII

ROBINSON AT HOME

THE LIFE AND MOST SURPRISING ADVENTURES OF ROBINSON CRUSOE, OF YORK, MARINER. WHO LIVED EIGHT AND TWENTY YEARS IN AN UNINHABITED ISLAND, ON THE COAST OF AMERICA, NEAR THE MOUTH OF THE GREAT RIVER OROONOQUE,

THE Military Memoirs OF Capt. George Carleton

FROM THE DUTCH WAR, 1672. In which he Serv'd, to the Conclusion of the Peace at UTRECHT, 1713.

TO THE RIGHT HONOURABLESpencer Lord Wilmington,

Knight of the Bath, and one of his Majesty's most Honourable Privy Council.

TO THE READER

MEMOIRS OF A CAVALIER

INTRODUCTION.

E. O'NEILL.

CONTENTS

PREFACE TO THE FIRST EDITION.

MEMOIRS OF A CAVALIER.

PART I.

"YOUR LOVING FATHER."

THE SECOND PART

THE Lay-Man’s SERMON UPON THE LATE STORM; Held forth at an Honest Coffee-House-Conventicle.

NAHUM. I. III

The Lord has his way in the Whirle-Wind and in the Storm, and the Clouds are the Dust of his Feet.

THE King of PIRATES:

THE PREFACE

THE King of PIRATES.

A Second LETTER

INTRODUCTION.

LONDON IN 1731.

OF CAPTAIN MISSON

From "The History Of The Pyrates. Vol. II."

By Daniel Defoe

GENERAL EDITORS

ASSISTANT EDITOR

ADVISORY EDITORS

INTRODUCTION

Bibliographical Note

Notes to the Introduction

Omne tulit punctum, qui miscuit utile dulci. Hor.

THE HISTORY OF THE PYRATES. VOL. II.

OF CAPTAIN MISSON.

A JOURNAL OF THE PLAGUE YEAR

AN HUMBLE PROPOSAL

PEOPLE OF ENGLAND,

Peace or War.

PREFACE

A GENERAL HISTORY OF THE PYRATES,

THE PREFACE.

THE CONTENTS.

INTRODUCTION.

CHAP. I. Of Captain AVERY, and his CREW.

CHAP. II. Of Captain MARTEL, and his CREW.

CHAP. III. Of Captain TEACH, alias BLACK-BEARD.

CHAP. IV. Of Major STEDE BONNET, and his CREW.

CHAP. V. Of Capt. EDW. ENGLAND, and his CREW.

CHAP. VI. Of Capt. CHARLES VANE, and his CREW.

CHAP. VII. Of Capt. RACKAM, and his CREW.

The LIFE of MARY READ.

The LIFE of ANNE BONNY.

CHAP. VIII. Of Capt. HOWEL DAVIS, and his Crew.

CHAP. IX. Of Capt. BAR. ROBERTS, and his CREW.

CHAP. X. Of Capt. ANSTIS, and his CREW.

CHAP. XI. Of Capt. WORLEY, and his CREW.

CHAP. XII. Of Capt. GEO. LOWTHER, and his CREW.

CHAP. XIII. Of Capt. LOW and his CREW.

CHAP. XIV. Of Capt. JOHN EVANS and his CREW.

CHAP. XV. Of Capt. JOHN PHILLIPS, and his CREW.

CHAP. XVI. Of Captain SPRIGGS, and his CREW.

THE HISTORY OF THE PYRATES.

INTRODUCTION.

By the KING,

A PROCLAMATION, for suppressing of PYRATES.

S. Jago de la Vega, Febr. 20. A Letter from his Excellency Sir Nicolas Laws, our Governor, to the Alcaldes of Trinidado on Cuba, dated the 26th of Jan. 1721-2.

A Letter from Mr. Joseph Laws, Lieutenant of his Majesty’s Ship, Happy Snow, to the Alcaldes of Trinidado.

The Answer of the Alcaldes of Trinidado, to Mr. Laws’s Letter.

Mr. Laws’s Reply to the Alcaldes Letter.

The Answer of one of the Alcaldes to Mr. Laws’s Reply.

CHAP. I. OF Captain AVERY, And his CREW.

CHAP. II. OF Captain MARTEL, And his CREW.

CHAP. III. OF Captain TEACH alias BLACK-BEARD.

CHAP. IV. OF Major Stede Bonnet, And his CREW.

The Lord Chief Justices’s SPEECH, upon his pronouncing Sentence on Major STEDE BONNET.

CHAP. V. OF Capt. Edward England, And his CREW.

A LETTER from Captain Mackra, dated at Bombay, Nov. 16, 1720.

CHAP. VI. OF Captain Charles Vane, And his CREW.

CHAP. VII. OF Captain John Rackam, And his CREW.

The LIFE of MARY READ,

The LIFE of ANNE BONNY.

CHAP. VIII. OF Captain Howel Davis, And his CREW.

A Description of the Islands of St. THOME, DEL PRINCIPE, and ANNOBONO.

CHAP. IX. OF Captain Bartho. Roberts, And his CREW.

A DESCRIPTION OF BRASIL, &c.

I.

II.

III.

IV.

V.

VI.

VII.

VIII.

IX.

X.

XI.

A List of the White-Men, now living on the high Land of Sierraleon, and the Craft they occupy.

The TRYALS of the PYRATES,

CHAP. X. OF Captain ANSTIS, And his CREW.

To his most sacred Majesty George, by the Grace of God, of Great-Britain, France and Ireland, King, Defender of the Faith, &c.

CHAP. XI. OF Captain WORLEY, And his CREW.

CHAP. XII. OF Capt. George Lowther, And his CREW.

CHAP. XIII. OF Captain Edward Low, And his CREW.

Resolution of the Mayor and Common-Council of the City of New-York, at a Common-Council held at the City Hall of the said City, on Thursday the 25th of July, Anno. Dom. 1723.

The Preamble of Captain Peter Solgard’s Copy of his Freedom.

CHAP. XIV. OF Capt. JOHN EVANS, And his CREW.

CHAP. XV. OF Captain John Phillips, And his CREW.

The Articles on Board the Revenge.

1.

2.

3.

4.

5.

6.

7.

8.

9.

The dying Declarations of John Rose Archer and William White, on the Day of their Execution at Boston, June 2, 1724, for the Crimes of Pyracy.

First, separately, of Archer.

And then of White.

Of both together.

CHAP. XVI. OF Captain SPRIGGS, And his CREW.

An Account of the Pyracies and Murders committed by Philip Roche, &c.

An ABSTRACT of the Civil Law and Statute Law now in Force, in Relation to Pyracy.

REASONS AGAINST THESUCCESSION OF THEHOUSE of HANOVER, WITH ANENQUIRY How far the Abdication of King James, supposing it to be Legal, ought to affect the Person of thePRETENDER.

Tour through the Eastern Counties of England, 1722

THE HISTORY Of the remarkable LIFE of JOHN SHEPPARD,

CONTAINING

A particular Account of his many ROBBERIES and ESCAPES,

TO THE CITIZENS OFLondon and Westminster.

THE LIFE OFJOHN SHEPPARD, &c.

HISTORY of THE PLAGUE IN LONDON

INTRODUCTION.

Footnotes

HISTORYOF THE PLAGUE IN LONDON.

Footnotes

THE HISTORY OF THE LIFE AND ADVENTURES OF Mr. Duncan Campbell,

TO THE LADIES AND GENTLEMENOF GREAT BRITAIN.

THE HISTORY OF THE LIFE AND SURPRISING ADVENTURESOF MR. DUNCAN CAMPBELL.

THE INTRODUCTION.

CHAPTER I.

CHAPTER II.

CHAPTER III.

CHAPTER IV.

CHAPTER V.

CHAPTER VI.

CHAPTER VII.

CHAPTER VIII.

APPENDIX.

VERSES

THE FORTUNATE MISTRESS

OR A HISTORY OF THE LIFE OF MADEMOISELLE DE BELEAU

KNOWN BY THE NAME OF THE LADY ROXANA

NEW YORK · · MCMVIII

GEORGE D. SPROUL

INTRODUCTION

FOOTNOTES:

AUTHOR'S PREFACE

A HISTORY OF THE LIFE OF ROXANA

CONTINUATION

AN Essay upon Projects.

INTRODUCTION.

AUTHOR’S PREFACE.

AUTHOR’S INTRODUCTION.

The History of Projects.

OF PROJECTORS.

OF BANKS.

Of the Multiplicity of Banks.

OF THE HIGHWAYS.

OF ASSURANCES.

OF FRIENDLY SOCIETIES.

Of Seamen.

I.

II.—FOR WIDOWS.

THE PROPOSAL IS FOR A PENSION OFFICE.

OF WAGERING.

OF FOOLS.

A CHARITY-LOTTERY.

OF BANKRUPTS.

A Court of Inquiries.

OF ACADEMIES.

Royal Academy for Military Exercises.

Academy for Women.

OF A COURT MERCHANT.

OF SEAMEN.

The Consequences of this Method.

THE CONCLUSION.

THE CONSOLIDATOR: OR, MEMOIRS OF Sundry Transactions FROM THE World in the Moon.

THE COMPLETE ENGLISH TRADESMAN

CONTENTS

AUTHOR'S PREFACE

INTRODUCTION

CHAPTER I

CHAPTER II

CHAPTER III

CHAPTER IV

CHAPTER V

CHAPTER VI

CHAPTER VII

CHAPTER VIII

CHAPTER IX

CHAPTER X

CHAPTER XI

CHAPTER XII

CHAPTER XIII

CHAPTER XIV

CHAPTER XV

CHAPTER XVI

CHAPTER XVII

CHAPTER XVIII

CHAPTER XIX

CHAPTER XX

CHAPTER XXI

CHAPTER XXII

CHAPTER XXIII

CHAPTER XXIV

CHAPTER XXV

AUGUSTA TRIUMPHANS:

City in the Universe

An effectual Method to prevent Street Robberies.

A Letter to Coll. Robinson, on account of the Orphans' Tax.

By Andrew Moreton, Esq.

Atalantis Major

INTRODUCTION

Key to Names and Characters in Atalantis Major

NOTES TO THE INTRODUCTION

BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTE

Atalantis Major.

Printed in Olreeky, the Chief City of the North Part of Atalantis Major.

Anno Mundi 1711.

Atalantis Major.

The Fortunes & Misfortunes of the Famous Moll Flanders &c.

THE AUTHOR'S PREFACE

MOLL FLANDERS

THE MEMOIRS OF Majr. Alexander Ramkins,

A HIGHLAND OFFICER, Now in Prison at AVIGNON.

A NEW VOYAGE ROUND THE WORLD,

SECOND THOUGHTS ARE BEST:

FURTHER IMPROVEMENT

STREET ROBBERIES:

THE PREFACE.

A SHORT NARRATIVE OF THE Life and Actions Of His GRACE JOHN, D. of Marlborough

Introduction byPaula R. Backscheider

A Vindication of the Press

GENERAL EDITORS

ASSISTANT EDITOR

ADVISORY EDITORS

INTRODUCTION

THE STORM: OR, A COLLECTION Of the most Remarkable CASUALTIES AND DISASTERS Which happen'd in the Late Dreadful TEMPEST, BOTH BY SEA and LAND.

A SEASONABLE WARNING AND CAUTION AGAINST THE INSINUATIONS OF PAPISTS AND JACOBITES IN FAVOUR OF THE PRETENDER.

The Conclusion.

FOOTNOTES

CAPTAIN SINGLETON

By Daniel Defoe

With An Introduction By Edward Garnett

[Transcriber's Note: In the print copy, the following words and those of the title page are written in intricate, illuminated calligraphy.] A TALE WHICH HOLDETH CHILDREN FROM PLAY AND OLD MEN FROM THE CHIMNEY CORNER. SIR PHILIP SIDNEY

PREFACE

EDWARD GARNETT.

THE LIFE, ADVENTURES, AND PIRACIES OF CAPTAIN SINGLETON

THE HISTORY OF THE DEVIL, AS WELL ANCIENT as MODERN:

IN TWO PARTS.

The Second Edition.

LONDON:

The PREFACE

TO THE

SECOND EDITION.

THE CONTENTS.

THE HISTORY OF THE DEVIL, &c.

Chap. I.

Chap. II.

Chap. III.

Chap. IV.

Chap. V.

Chap. VI.

Chap. VII.

Chap. VIII.

Chap. IX.

Chap. X.

Chap. XI.

PART II. OF THEModern History OF THE DEVIL.

Chap. I.

Chap. II.

Chap. III.

Chap. IV.

Chap. V.

Chap. VI.

Chap. VII.

Chap. VIII.

Chap. IX.

Chap. X.

Chap. XI.

The CONCLUSION.

DICKORY CRONKE

PREFACE

PART I

PART II

Meditations and Observations relating to the Conduct of Human Life in general.

PART III

A LETTER FROM OXFORD

AN ELEGY, IN MEMORY OF DICKORY CRONKE, THE DUMB PHILOSOPHER.

EPITAPH

AN APPEAL TO HONOUR AND JUSTICE,

THOUGH IT BE OF HIS WORST ENEMIES,

A TRUE ACCOUNT OF HIS CONDUCT IN PUBLIC AFFAIRS.

AN ANSWER TO A QUESTION

AND WHAT IF THE PRETENDER SHOULD COME?OR SOME CONSIDERATIONS, &c.

THE TRUE-BORN ENGLISHMAN:

A SATIRE.

CONTENTS

AN EXPLANATORY PREFACE.

PREFACE.

THE INTRODUCTION.

THE TRUE-BORN ENGLISHMAN.

PART I.

PART II.

BRITANNIA.

HIS FINE SPEECH, &c.

THE CONCLUSION.

THE STORM.

AN ESSAY.

1704 title: An Elegy on the Author of the True-Born-English-Man.

With an essay on the late storm.

THE STORM. AN ESSAY.

First Edition

The Life and Adventures of Robinson Crusoe

CHAPTER I—START IN LIFE

I was born in the year 1632, in the city of York, of a good family, though not of that country, my father being a foreigner of Bremen, who settled first at Hull.  He got a good estate by merchandise, and leaving off his trade, lived afterwards at York, from whence he had married my mother, whose relations were named Robinson, a very good family in that country, and from whom I was called Robinson Kreutznaer; but, by the usual corruption of words in England, we are now called—nay we call ourselves and write our name—Crusoe; and so my companions always called me.

I had two elder brothers, one of whom was lieutenant-colonel to an English regiment of foot in Flanders, formerly commanded by the famous Colonel Lockhart, and was killed at the battle near Dunkirk against the Spaniards.  What became of my second brother I never knew, any more than my father or mother knew what became of me.

Being the third son of the family and not bred to any trade, my head began to be filled very early with rambling thoughts.  My father, who was very ancient, had given me a competent share of learning, as far as house-education and a country free school generally go, and designed me for the law; but I would be satisfied with nothing but going to sea; and my inclination to this led me so strongly against the will, nay, the commands of my father, and against all the entreaties and persuasions of my mother and other friends, that there seemed to be something fatal in that propensity of nature, tending directly to the life of misery which was to befall me.

My father, a wise and grave man, gave me serious and excellent counsel against what he foresaw was my design.  He called me one morning into his chamber, where he was confined by the gout, and expostulated very warmly with me upon this subject.  He asked me what reasons, more than a mere wandering inclination, I had for leaving father’s house and my native country, where I might be well introduced, and had a prospect of raising my fortune by application and industry, with a life of ease and pleasure.  He told me it was men of desperate fortunes on one hand, or of aspiring, superior fortunes on the other, who went abroad upon adventures, to rise by enterprise, and make themselves famous in undertakings of a nature out of the common road; that these things were all either too far above me or too far below me; that mine was the middle state, or what might be called the upper station of low life, which he had found, by long experience, was the best state in the world, the most suited to human happiness, not exposed to the miseries and hardships, the labour and sufferings of the mechanic part of mankind, and not embarrassed with the pride, luxury, ambition, and envy of the upper part of mankind.  He told me I might judge of the happiness of this state by this one thing—viz. that this was the state of life which all other people envied; that kings have frequently lamented the miserable consequence of being born to great things, and wished they had been placed in the middle of the two extremes, between the mean and the great; that the wise man gave his testimony to this, as the standard of felicity, when he prayed to have neither poverty nor riches.