Daniel Defoe Books


Robinson Crusoe

Daniel Defoe

Robinson Crusoe is the classic castaway novel by Daniel Defoe published in 1719, and it is considered by some to be the first real novel in English. It has inspired adventure lovers and pioneer types ..

Moll Flanders

Daniel Defoe

After the success of his 1719 novel Robinson Crusoe, Daniel Defoe wrote Moll Flanders, a novel in the popular "criminal biography" genre which contends for the longest full title in all of literature,..

A Journal of the Plague Year

Daniel Defoe

A Journal of the Plague Year is a novel by Daniel Defoe, first published in March 1722. This novel is an account of one man's experiences of the year 1665, in which the Great Plague or the bubonic pla..

History of the Plague in England

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The father of Daniel Defoe was a butcher in the parish of St. Giles's, Cripplegate, London. In this parish, probably, Daniel Defoe was born in 1661, the year after the restoration of Charles II. The b..

Memoirs of a Cavalier

Daniel Defoe

Memoirs of a Cavalier is a work of historical fiction by Daniel Defoe, set during the Thirty Years' War and the English Civil Wars. The full title, which bore no date, was: Memoirs of a Cavalier; or A..

The Life, Adventures and Piracies of the Famous Captain Singleton

Daniel Defoe

The Life, Adventures, and Pyracies, of the Famous Captain Singleton (1720) covers both land and sea in one volume, in two neatly composed halves. The first half of the novel includes a remarkable over..

Tour Through the Eastern Counties of England

Daniel Defoe

Tour Through the Eastern Counties of England by Daniel Dafoe is an enjoyable travel memoir. She plays with the reader's imagination and portrays scenic beauty with such delight that the reader is drag..

The Consolidator

Daniel Defoe

The Consolidator is a fictional adventure by Daniel Defoe. ..