Daniel Defoe

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  • Bibliography:
    82 Books
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    January 1719
  • Latest Book:
    December 2015
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Book List in Order: 82 titles

  • Robinson Crusoe

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    Classic Starts (Sterling)

    A storm at sea ... a doomed ship . a sole survivor . . . here is Daniel De-foe's immortal tale of a young merchant seaman cast ashore on an uninhabited tropical island, destined to spend twenty-four years in isolated loneliness. But more than a story...

  • A Journal of the Plague Year

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    Bring out your dead! The ceaseless chant of doom echoed through a city of emptied streets and filled grave pits. For this was London in the year 1665, the Year of the Great Plague. . . . In 1721, when the Black Death again threatened the European Con...

  • Moll Flanders

    In MOLL FLANDERS, we meet one of the most lively, convincing and delightful rogues in literature. From her birth in Newgate Prison to her final position of wealth and stature, Moll Flanders demonstrates a mercantile spirit and an indomitable will. Mo...

  • Roxana, or The Fortunate Mistress

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    Beginning with an account of her first marriage to a man she describes as a “fool,” Roxana tells the tale of her unusual life in a poignant first-person narrative. As her respect for her husband’s intelligence and character decline, Roxana and ...

  • A Tour Through the Whole Island of Great Britain

    This book covers Britain in the early eighteenth century. It provides an introduction that is both informative and imaginative, reliable and entertaining. To the tradition of travel writing Daniel Defoe brings a lifetime's experience as a businessman...

  • A Visitation of the Plague

  • The True-Born Englishman & Other Writings

    A new selection of Daniel Defoe's early, radical writings. It includes his verse satire on English chauvinism, his satire on High Church intolerance, as well as a dozen other pieces written between 1697 and 1706. These are of particular interest, con...

  • Farther Adventures of Robinson Crusoe

    Daniel Defoe's faith-filled The Farther Adventures of Robinson Crusoe finds Crusoe bored with his prosperity and consumed by an irresistible longing to return to the island he left many years before. Along with his trusty servant and companion, Frida...

  • The History and Remarkable Life of the Truly Honorable Colonel Jacque, Commonly Called Colonel Jack

    Like several of the main characters in Defoe's stories (Captain Singleton, Moll Flanders), Colonel Jacque never really knew his real parents; and he is always looking out for the main chance. His chief interest is commerce, and he becomes an Anglo-Sa...



  • The Life, Adventures and Piracies of the Famous Captain Singleton

    Defoe here offers a searching exploration of society from the point of view of its outcasts. Originally was published in 1720, a year after ROBINSON CRUSOE, when Daniel Defoe was fifty-nine, CAPTAIN SINGLETON is an absorbing and delightful tale. T...

  • Of Captain Mission

    Daniel Defoe was an English trader and author.  Defoe was a very prolific writer of various topics such as politics, religion, marriage and psychology.  This edition of Of Captain Mission includes a table of contents....

  • The Further Adventures of Robinson Crusoe

    We set out on the 5th of February from Ireland, and had a very fair gale of wind for some days. As I remember, it might be about the 20th of February in the evening late, when the mate, having the watch, came into the round-house and told us he sa...

  • The Life And Most Surprising Adventures Of Robinson Crusoe, Of York, Mariner, Including An Account Of His Deliverance Thence, An

    Daniel Defoe (1659/1661-1731) was an English writer, journalist and spy, who gained enduring fame for his novel Robinson Crusoe (1719). Defoe is notable for being one of the earliest practitioners of the novel and helped popularise the genre in Brita...

  • The Memoirs Of Major Alexander Ramkins

    Daniel Defoe (1660?-1731) was a prolific English writer who became one of the first Western writers to write novels and turn them into a sought after literary genre. During his life, Defoe wrote more than 500 books, pamphlets and journals on topics a...

  • Of Captain Misson And His Crew

    Daniel Defoe (1659/1661-1731) was an English writer, journalist and spy, who gained enduring fame for his novel Robinson Crusoe (1719). Defoe is notable for being one of the earliest practitioners of the novel and helped popularise the genre in Brita...

  • Atalantis Major

    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 the previous month’s General Election -- a land...

  • The Fortunate Mistress; or, a History of the Life of Mademoiselle de Beleau, Known by the Name of the Lady Roxan

  • The Life of Captain Singleton

  • Due Preparations for the Plague, as Well for Soul as Body



  • Woben Lakwa

    "Woben Lakwa" is the Haitian Creole adaptation of Daniel Defoe’s (1719) masterpiece, "Robinson Crusoe." This classic book tells the thrilling story of the adventurer, Robinson Crusoe (Woben Lakwa). At the beginning of the book, the young Englishman...

  • Adventure Classics for Boys: Robinson Crusoe, Treasure Island, Kidnapped!

    Three classic, timeless yarns to fill young readers' minds with action, adventure, and possibility -- abridged for easy reading In Robinson Crusoe, Crusoe is stranded on an island, totally isolated, until 24 years later when he unexpectedl...

  • A New Voyage Round the World

    The full title of this book is: "A New Voyage Round the World, by a Course never Sailed before. Being a Voyage undertaken by some Merchants, who afterwards proposed the Setting up an East-India Company in Flanders" is a narrative fiction of a merchan...

  • Robinson Crusoe. Elibron Classics

    Ignoring the advice of his father, young Robinson Crusoe leaves England to seek adventure as a sailor. He has cause to regret his decision when he becomes the lone survivor of a catastrophic shipwreck on a secluded, uninhabited island. Stranded, with...

  • Daniel Defoe Collection

    "Robinson Crusoe" was a castaway as a result of a terrible storm at sea. He was left with only a knife, some tobacco and a pipe. And so starts his education in how to survive, he learns how to build a canoe, make bread, and endure endless solitude. U...

  • The Complete Life of Robinson Crusoe

  • Augusta Triumphans

    A man who has the public good in view, ought not in the least to be alarmed at the tribute of ridicule which scoffers constantly pay to projecting heads. It is the business of a writer, who means well, to go directly forward, without regard to critic...

  • A General History of the Pyrates

    This collection of literature attempts to compile many of the classic works that have stood the test of time and offer them at a reduced, affordable price, in an attractive volume so that everyone can enjoy them....

  • Robinson Crusoe and the Further Adventures of Robinson Crusoe

    Running away to sea to escape a legal career, Robinson Crusoe ends up having rather more excitement than he'd bargained for in this infamous adventure yarn by Daniel Defoe. Only just surviving his first storm at sea, Crusoe goes on to become a su...

  • The Robinson Crusoe Trilogy

    The iconic Robinson Crusoe and the real life events that inspired his story Almost everyone has heard of the story of Robinson Crusoe and his man Friday, whether they have actually read Defoe's book or not. Crusoe has been the subject of numerous fi...



  • The Life, Adventures & Piracies of the Famous Captain Singleton

    The Life, Adventures and Piracies of the Famous Captain Singleton is a Daniel Defoe novel partly inspired by the exploits of English pirate Henry Every. The narrative describes the life of an Englishman, stolen from a well-to-do family as a child and...

  • The Life, Adventures Piracies of the Famous Captain Singleton

    That all Defoe's novels, with the exception of "Robinson Crusoe," should have been covered with the dust of neglect for many generations, is a plain proof of how much fashions in taste affect the popularity of the British classics. It is true that th...

  • Robinson Crusoe, Modernized Edition

    Robinson Crusoe is one of the most famous literary characters in history, and his story has spawned hundreds of retellings. Inspired by the life of Alexander Selkirk, a sailor who lived for several years on a Pacific island, the novel tells the s...

  • The Fortunes & Misfortunes of the Famous Moll Flanders &C.

    The Fortunes and Misfortunes of the Famous Moll Flanders, &c. Who was Born in Newgate, and during a Life of continu'd Variety for Threescore Years, besides her Childhood, was Twelve Year a Whore, five times a Wife (whereof once to her own Brother), T...

  • The Fortunate Mistress, the Original Classic Novel

    He would have taken me as a wife, but would not entertain me as a whore. Was ever woman angry with any gentleman on that head? And was ever woman so stupid to choose to be a whore, where she might have been an honest wife? But infatuations are next t...

  • History of the Plague in London

    Daniel Defoe (1660?-1731) was a prolific English writer who became one of the first Western writers to write novels and turn them into a sought after literary genre. During his life, Defoe wrote more than 500 books, pamphlets and journals on topics a...

  • Roxana: The Fortunate Mistress

    a History of the Life and Vast Variety of Fortunes of Mademoiselle de Beleau, Afterwards Called the Countess de Wintselsheim. The novel concerns the story of an unnamed "fallen woman," the second time Defoe created such a character (the first was a s...

  • The Fortunes and Misfortunes of Moll Flanders

    This book contains Daniel Defoe’s seminal 1722 novel, "The Fortunes and Misfortunes of the Famous Moll Flanders". It purports to be a factual account of Moll Flanders’s life from birth until death, and recounts the experiences of a woman ...

  • The Life, Adventures & Piracies of Captain Singleton

    Daniel Defoe (1660?-1731) was a prolific English writer who became one of the first Western writers to write novels and turn them into a sought after literary genre. During his life, Defoe wrote more than 500 books, pamphlets and journals on topics a...

  • Reasons Against the Succession of the House of Hanover with an Enquiry

    " ...]Hanover, would by no means desire them to come hither, or desire you to bring them on such terms; first let the world see you are in a condition to support and defend them, that the pretender, and his power and alliances of any kind, shall not ...



  • An Essay Upon Projects

    This is an electronic edition of the complete book complemented by author biography. This book features a table of contents linked to every chapter. The book was designed for optimal navigation on the iPad, PDA, Smartphone, and other electronic reade...

  • Captain Singleton

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    A hugely entertaining book in Defoeís signature style. Replete with heart-stopping adventures and thrilling escapades, it takes the reader to exotic lands. This page-turner is a guaranteed treat for young and old alike....

  • Colonel Jack

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    This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available a...

  • The Compleat English Gentleman

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    This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available a...

  • The Complete English Tradesman

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    Daniel Defoe (1659/1661-1731) was an English writer, journalist and spy, who gained enduring fame for his novel Robinson Crusoe (1719). Defoe is notable for being one of the earliest practitioners of the novel and helped popularise the genre in Brita...

  • The Consolidator

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  • Daniel Defoe

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  • Dickory Cronke

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    This is an electronic edition of the complete book complemented by author biography. This book features a table of contents linked to every chapter. The book was designed for optimal navigation on the iPad, PDA, Smartphone, and other electronic reade...

  • Everybody's Business Is Nobody's Business

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    Another classic converted by eBooksLib.com.Since this little book appeared in print, it has had no less than three answers, and fresh attacks are daily expected from the powers of Grub-street; but should threescore antagonists more arise, unless they...

  • Fortunes and Misfortunes of the Famous Moll Flanders

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    Daniel Defoe (1660?-1731) was a prolific English writer who became one of the first Western writers to write novels and turn them into a sought after literary genre. During his life, Defoe wrote more than 500 books, pamphlets and journals on topics a...



  • The Fortunate Mistress

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    In March, 1724, was published the narrative in which Defoe came, perhaps even nearer than in Moll Flanders, to writing what we to-day call a novel, namely: The Fortunate Mistress; or, a History of the Life and Vast Variety of Fortunes of Mademoiselle...

  • From London To Land's End

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    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 resembling Defoe's work so much in form and title, and so near to it in date of publication, that a volume of one book i...

  • The History Of The Devil

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    This is a pre-1923 historical reproduction that was curated for quality. Quality assurance was conducted on each of these books in an attempt to remove books with imperfections introduced by the digitization process. Though we have made best efforts ...

  • The History Of The Great Plague In London, In The Year 1665

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  • The History of the Remarkable Life of John Sheppard

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    Daniel Defoe (1659/1661-1731) was an English writer, journalist and spy, who gained enduring fame for his novel Robinson Crusoe (1719). Defoe is notable for being one of the earliest practitioners of the novel and helped popularise the genre in Brita...

  • Jure Divino

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  • The King of Pirates

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    Soon after the success of his beloved classic Robinson Crusoe in 1719, Defoe wrote this thrilling tale of high-seas adventure. In a firsthand account, colorful rogue Captain Avery pens a letter of defense against scandalous accusations. In doing so, ...

  • The Life Adventures and Piracies of the Famous Captain Singleton

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    After being kidnapped from his family as a child, Bob Singleton is raised by the gypsy who purchased him. As a young man, he quickly takes to life at sea, and begins a series of adventures, both on and off land, eventually becoming a successful pirat...

  • The Life and ... Adventures of Robinson Crusoe

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  • The Life and Adventures of Robinson Crusoe

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    When Robinson Crusoe left the English coast for Africa, he never dreamed he'd soon find himself on a desert island, the sole survivor of a shipwreck. Daniel Defoe's gripping adventure-one of the first English novels-chronicles Crusoe's experiences on...

  • The Life And Adventures Of The Famous Moll Flanders, Who Was Born In Newgate ...

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  • The Life And Most Surprising Adventures Of Robinson Crusoe Of York Mariner

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    This is a pre-1923 historical reproduction that was curated for quality. Quality assurance was conducted on each of these books in an attempt to remove books with imperfections introduced by the digitization process. Though we have made best efforts ...

  • The Life And Most Surprising Adventures Of Robinson Crusoe, Of York, Mariner

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    • The book has been corrected for spelling and grammatical errors• Illustrated bookIf ever the story of any private man's adventures in the world were worth making public, and were acceptable when published, the Editor of this account t...

  • The Life And Most Surprising Adventures Of Robinson Crusoe, Of York, Mariner, Who Lived Eight And Twenty Years In An Uninhabited

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  • The Life And Most Surprising Adventures Of Robinson Crusoe, Of York, Mariner, Who Lived Eight-And Twenty Years In An Uninhabited

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  • The Life And Most Surprising Adventures Of Robinson Crusoe; Of York, Mariner; Who Lived Eight And Twenty Years In An Uninhabited

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  • The Life, Adventures, and Pyracies of the Famous Captain Singleton

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    Another classic converted by eBooksLib.com.That all Defoe's novels, with the exception of Robinson Crusoe, should have been covered with the dust of neglect for many generations, is a plain proof of how much fashions in taste affect the popularity of...

  • Memoirs of a Cavalier

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    Daniel Defoe (1660?-1731) was a prolific English writer who became one of the first Western writers to write novels and turn them into a sought after literary genre. During his life, Defoe wrote more than 500 books, pamphlets and journals on topics a...

  • Memoirs of the Church of Scotland, in Four Periods

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    This is an EXACT reproduction of a book published before 1923. This IS NOT an OCR'd book with strange characters, introduced typographical errors, and jumbled words. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor p...

  • The Memoirs Of Captain George Carleton

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  • The Military Memoirs of Capt. George Carleton

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    Daniel Defoe (1660?-1731) was a prolific English writer who became one of the first Western writers to write novels and turn them into a sought after literary genre. During his life, Defoe wrote more than 500 books, pamphlets and journals on topics a...

  • The Novels And Miscellaneous Works Of Daniel Defoe

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    This is a pre-1923 historical reproduction that was curated for quality. Quality assurance was conducted on each of these books in an attempt to remove books with imperfections introduced by the digitization process. Though we have made best efforts ...

  • The Novels and Miscellaneous Works of Daniel Defoe, Volume 6

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  • The Novels and Miscellaneous Works of Daniel Defoe, Volume 7

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  • The Novels of Daniel Defoe

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    Brings together three parts of "Robinson Crusoe" and examines their relationship. This work contains editorial material that includes a substantial introduction to each novel, explanatory endnotes, textual notes, and a consolidated index....

  • The Pirate Gow

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    With a fascinating introduction that provides historical context for the book, this rendition of novelist Daniel Defoe’s historical account details the life of John Gow, the notorious 18th-century pirate who ransacke...

  • Serious Reflections During The Life And Surprising Adventures Of Robinson Crusoe

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    This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available a...

  • The Storm

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    On the evening of 26th November 1703, a cyclone from the north Atlantic hammered into southern Britain at over seventy miles an hour, claiming the lives of over 8,000 people. Eyewitnesses reported seeing cows left stranded in the branches of trees a...

  • The True-Born Englishman

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    Classic satire, first published in 1701. According to Wikipedia: "Daniel Defoe (ca. 1659-1661 " 24 April 1731[1]), born Daniel Foe, was an English writer, journalist, and pamphleteer, who gained fame for his novel Robinson Crusoe. Defoe is notable ...

  • A Vindication Of The Press

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    Daniel Defoe (1659/1661-1731) was an English writer, journalist and spy, who gained enduring fame for his novel Robinson Crusoe (1719). Defoe is notable for being one of the earliest practitioners of the novel and helped popularise the genre in Brita...

  • The Works of Daniel Defoe

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    The complete works of Daniel Defoe, including Robinson Crusoe and Moll Flanders, with active table of contents: Atalantis Major The Complete English Tradesman The Consolidator Dickory Cronke An Essay Upon Projects Everybody's Business is Nobo...

  • The Works Of Daniel Defoe, Volume 11

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  • The Works Of Daniel Defoe, Volume 2

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Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Daniel Defoe has published 82 books.

Daniel Defoe does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, An Essay Upon Projects, was published in December 2015.

The first book by Daniel Defoe, Robinson Crusoe, was published in January 1719.

No. Daniel Defoe does not write books in series.
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