The Works Of Daniel Defoe Carefully Selected From The Most Authentic Sources With A Life Of The Author

Author : Daniel Defoe
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ISBN 13 : 9781331118152
Total Pages : 772 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (181 download)

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Download or read book The Works of Daniel Defoe written by Daniel Defoe and published by . This book was released on 2015-07-10 with total page 772 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Works of Daniel Defoe: Carefully Selected From the Most Authentic Sources, With Chalmers' Life of the Author, Annotated My Dear Sir, There is no one to whom I can more fitly inscribe this volume than the author of 'Memoirs of the Life and Times of Daniel De Foe, ' who has so well succeeded in doing justice to the fair fame of that great and excellent man, and in recovering the memory of those public services which entitle him to be enrolled amongst the patriots and benefactors of his country. Up to the publication of your work, though De Foe had slept with his fathers for nearly a century, no satisfactory attempt had been made to do homage to his worth, and. in fact, there was no English author of equal merit of whom so little was popularly known. The narrative of Mr Chalmers, though valuable in some respects, was far too scanty to satisfy the admirers of De Foe, or to assist them in attaining a just knowledge of his character as a man and as a writer, while the introduction to Mr Cadell's edition of 'Robinson Crusoe' is rather a criticism than a memoir. As you well remark: - "Those who are acquainted with the narratives of De Foe, must be satisfied that no one could be so competent to become his own biographer as the author of 'Robinson Crusoe.' His accurate painting from nature, his skill in the delineation of character, and the interest which he contrives to throw over the commonest incidents, all combine to enchant the reader, and to inspire a wish that so masterly a pen had been employed in telling his own story to posterity. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.