Daniel Defoe

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• Publisher: The Floating Press
• Year: 2009
• eBook ISBN: 9781775416579
• Edition: 0

Learn more about the life and works of the brilliant eighteenth-century spy, novelist, and rabble-rouser Daniel Defoe in this penetrating biography penned by William Minto. Minto, a Scottish professor of logic, offers a keenly insightful take on the influences and events that shaped Defoe's contributions to journalism and literature, which included such works as Robinson Crusoe and Moll Flanders.

Table of contents

• DANIEL DEFOE
• Contents
• Preface
• Chapter I - Defoe's Youth and Early Pursuits
• Chapter II - King William's Adjutant
• Chapter III - A Martyr to Dissent?
• Chapter IV - The Review of the Affairs of France
• Chapter V - The Advocate of Peace and Union
• Chapter VI - Dr. Sacheverell, and the Change of Go…
• Chapter VII - Difficulties in Re-Changing Sides
• Chapter VIII - Later Journalistic Labours
• Chapter IX - The Place of Defoe's Fictions in His …
• Chapter X - His Mysterious End
• Endnotes