Daniel Defoe Books


The Further Adventures of Robinson Crusoe

Daniel Defoe

The Farther Adventures of Robinson Crusoe is a novel by Daniel Defoe, first published in 1719. Just as in its significantly more popular predecessor, Robinson Crusoe, the first edition credits the wor..

Everybody's Business is Nobody's Business

Daniel Defoe

Everybody's Business is Nobody's Business: Or, Private Abuses, Public Grievances Exemplified is a 1725 pamphlet by Daniel Defoe. It deals with the high salary of servants...

From London to Land's End

Daniel Defoe

From London to Land's End is travel literature by Daniel Defoe. At the end of this book there are a couple of letters from a volume of the “Travels in England” which were not by Defoe, although resemb..

Of Captain Mission and His Crew

Daniel Defoe

Defoe has been recognized as the author of A General History of the Robberies and Murders of the Most Notorious Pyrates since 1932 when John Robert Moore suggested that the supposed author, Captain Ch..

An Essay on Projects

Daniel Defoe

An Essay Upon Projects was the first volume published by Daniel Defoe. It begins with a portrait of his time as a "Projecting Age" and subsequently illustrates plans for the economic and social improv..

Dickory Cronke

Daniel Defoe

A faithful and very surprising Account how Dickory Cronke, a Tinner's son, in the County of Cornwall, was born Dumb, and continued so for Fifty-eight years; and how, some days before he died, he came ..

Atalantis Major

Daniel Defoe

Atalantis Major is a thinly veiled allegory describing the November 1710 election of the representative Scottish peers. The circumstances which surrounded this election were produced by the outcome of..