Daniel Defoe, (born 1660, London, Eng.—died April 24, 1731, London), English novelist, pamphleteer, and journalist, author of Robinson Crusoe (1719–22) and Moll Flanders (1722).
Defoe’s father, James Foe, was a hard-working and fairly prosperous tallow chandler (perhaps also, later, a butcher), of Flemish descent. By his middle 30s, Daniel was calling himself “Defoe,” probably reviving a variant of what may have been the original family name. As a Nonconformist, or Dissenter, Foe could not send his son to the University of Oxford or to Cambridge; he sent him instead to the excellent academy at Newington Green kept by the Reverend Charles Morton. There Defoe received an education in many ways better, and certainly broader, than any he would have had at an English university. Morton was an admirable teacher, later becoming first vice president of Harvard College; and the clarity, simplicity, and ease of his style of writing—together with the Bible, the works of John Bunyan, and the pulpit oratory of the day—may have helped to form Defoe’s own literary style.
The lists below can be found on this app that give some his main works:
A General History of the Pyrates
A Journal of the Plague Year
A New Voyage Round the World by a Course Never Sailed Before
A Seasonable Warning and Caution against the Insinuations of Papists and
A Short Narrative of the Life and Actions of His Grace John, D. of Marlborogh
A True Relation of the Apparition of one Mrs. Veal
A Vindication of the Press
An American Robinson Crusoe
An Answer to a Question that Nobody thinks of, viz., But what if the Queen
An Appeal to Honour and Justice, Though It Be of His Worst Enemies.
An Essay Upon Projects
An Humble Proposal to the People of England, for the Increase of their Trade
And What if the Pretender should Come
Atalantis Major
Augusta Triumphans
Dickory Cronke The Dumb Philosopher, or, Great Britain's Wonder
Everybody's Business Is Nobody's Business
From London to Land's End
History of the Plague in London
Memoirs of Major Alexander Ramkins (1718)
Memoirs of a Cavalier
Military Memoirs of Capt. George Carleton
Of Captain Mission
Reasons Against the Succession of the House of Hanover
Robinson Crusoe's Reisen, wunderbare Abenteuer und Erlebnisse
Second Thoughts are Best Or a Further Improvement of a Late Scheme to Prevent
The Complete English Tradesman (1839 ed.)
The Consolidator; or, Memoirs of Sundry Transactions from the World in the Moon
The Fortunate Mistress (Parts 1 and 2)
The Fortunes and Misfortunes of the Famous Moll Flanders
The Friendly Daemon, or the Generous Apparition
The Further Adventures of Robinson Crusoe
The History and Remarkable Life of the Truly Honourable Colonel Jacque, Commonly
The History of the Devil, As Well Ancient as Modern In Two Parts
The History of the Life and Adventures of Mr. Duncan Campell by
The History of the Pyrates. Vol. II.
The History of the Remarkable Life of John Sheppard
The King of Pirates
The Lay-Man's Sermon upon the Late Storm
The Life and Adventures of Robinson Crusoe (1808)
The Life and Adventures of Robinson Crusoe
The Life and Adventures of Robinson Crusoe of York, Mariner, Volume 1
The Life and Most Surprising Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, of York, Mariner
The Life, Adventures & Piracies of the Famous Captain Singleton
The Storm
The Storm. An Essay.
The True-Born Englishman A Satire
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Defoe’s father, James Foe, was a hard-working and fairly prosperous tallow chandler (perhaps also, later, a butcher), of Flemish descent. By his middle 30s, Daniel was calling himself “Defoe,” probably reviving a variant of what may have been the original family name. As a Nonconformist, or Dissenter, Foe could not send his son to the University of Oxford or to Cambridge; he sent him instead to the excellent academy at Newington Green kept by the Reverend Charles Morton. There Defoe received an education in many ways better, and certainly broader, than any he would have had at an English university. Morton was an admirable teacher, later becoming first vice president of Harvard College; and the clarity, simplicity, and ease of his style of writing—together with the Bible, the works of John Bunyan, and the pulpit oratory of the day—may have helped to form Defoe’s own literary style.
The lists below can be found on this app that give some his main works:
A General History of the Pyrates
A Journal of the Plague Year
A New Voyage Round the World by a Course Never Sailed Before
A Seasonable Warning and Caution against the Insinuations of Papists and
A Short Narrative of the Life and Actions of His Grace John, D. of Marlborogh
A True Relation of the Apparition of one Mrs. Veal
A Vindication of the Press
An American Robinson Crusoe
An Answer to a Question that Nobody thinks of, viz., But what if the Queen
An Appeal to Honour and Justice, Though It Be of His Worst Enemies.
An Essay Upon Projects
An Humble Proposal to the People of England, for the Increase of their Trade
And What if the Pretender should Come
Atalantis Major
Augusta Triumphans
Dickory Cronke The Dumb Philosopher, or, Great Britain's Wonder
Everybody's Business Is Nobody's Business
From London to Land's End
History of the Plague in London
Memoirs of Major Alexander Ramkins (1718)
Memoirs of a Cavalier
Military Memoirs of Capt. George Carleton
Of Captain Mission
Reasons Against the Succession of the House of Hanover
Robinson Crusoe's Reisen, wunderbare Abenteuer und Erlebnisse
Second Thoughts are Best Or a Further Improvement of a Late Scheme to Prevent
The Complete English Tradesman (1839 ed.)
The Consolidator; or, Memoirs of Sundry Transactions from the World in the Moon
The Fortunate Mistress (Parts 1 and 2)
The Fortunes and Misfortunes of the Famous Moll Flanders
The Friendly Daemon, or the Generous Apparition
The Further Adventures of Robinson Crusoe
The History and Remarkable Life of the Truly Honourable Colonel Jacque, Commonly
The History of the Devil, As Well Ancient as Modern In Two Parts
The History of the Life and Adventures of Mr. Duncan Campell by
The History of the Pyrates. Vol. II.
The History of the Remarkable Life of John Sheppard
The King of Pirates
The Lay-Man's Sermon upon the Late Storm
The Life and Adventures of Robinson Crusoe (1808)
The Life and Adventures of Robinson Crusoe
The Life and Adventures of Robinson Crusoe of York, Mariner, Volume 1
The Life and Most Surprising Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, of York, Mariner
The Life, Adventures & Piracies of the Famous Captain Singleton
The Storm
The Storm. An Essay.
The True-Born Englishman A Satire
Credits :
All of the books under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License [www.gutenberg.org]. This ebook is for the use of anyone anywhere in the United States. If you are not located in the United States, you will have to check the laws of the country where you are located before using this ebook.
Readium is available under BSD 3-Clause license
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