DANIEL DEFOE
To assist my efforts to emulate Defoe's writing style, I have amassed an etext collection of many of his works. His most famous writings (Robinson Crusoe, Moll Flanders, Journal of the Plague Year, etc.) are readily available on-line (see Project Gutenburg).
The texts offered here are less well-known and are unavailable in this format. I created them from publically available book scans at books.google.com and archive.org, using optical character recognition software or already recognized raw text from archive.org.
I have removed footnotes and other words not written by Defoe, and done some proof-reading and formating of the texts, but errors certainly remain. Please email me if you find any errors, or if you find these texts useful. Please credit me if you use these texts.
1704 The Storm
1715 The Family Instructor I
1715 The Family Instructor II
1719 The King of Pirates
1720 The Serious Reflections of Robinson Crusoe
1720 Duncan Campbell
1722 Due Preparations for the Plague
1722 Religious Courtship
1724 A New Voyage Round the World
1725 Captain John Gow.htm
1725 Life and Actions of Jonathan Wild
1726 The History of the Devil
1726 Lives of Six Notorious Robbers
1727 Conjugal Lewdness
(The Use and Abust of the Marriage Bed)
1727 The Secrets of the Invisible World Disclos'd
1728 Augusta Triumphans
OTHER TEXTS AVAILABLE
(Please email me if you would like any of the following texts.)
(N.B.: I am looking for the text of Defoe's 1726 work, Mere Nature Delineated; please contact me if you have this work available in electronic form.)
1698: An Enquiry into the Occasional Conformity of Dissenters in Cases of Preferment.
1701 Legion's Memorial
1701: A Letter to Mr. How, etc.
1701 The History of the Kentish Petition
1701? A Memorial to the Gentlemen, Freeholders, and Inhabitants of the Counties of ------
1701 The Original Power of the Collective Body of the People of England, Examined and Asserted.
1702: An Enquiry into Occasional Conformity. Shewing that the Dissenters Are no Way Concern'd in it.
1702: The Shortest Way with the Dissenters: or, Proposals for the Establishment of the Church.
1702 A New Test of the Church of England's Loyalty
1703 A Hymn to the Pillory
1703: A Brief Explanation of A late Pamphlet, entitul'd, The shortest Way with the Dissenters.
1703: The Sincerity of the Dissenters Vindicated, From the Scandal of Occasional Conformity, with Some Considerations on a late Book, Entitul'd, Moderation a Vertue.
1704 Some Remarks On the First Chapter in Dr. Davenant's Essays. 1703. Reissued as Original Right ... Being an Answer to the first Chapter, etc.
1706 Remarks on a Bill to Prevent Frauds committed by Bankrupts
1710 An Essay upon Loans
1710 An Essay upon Public Credit
1711 An Essay on the South Sea Trade
1712 A Seasonable Warning and Caution against the Insinuations of Papists and Jacobites in favour of the Pretender.
1713 An Answer to a Question that Nobody Thinks Of, viz., But what if the Queen should Die?
1713 Reasons Against the Succession of the House of Hanover, with an Enquiry how far the Abdication of King James, supposing it to be Legal, ought to affect the Person of the Pretender.
1713 And What If the Pretender Should Come? Or Some Considerations of the Advantages and Real Consequences of the Pretender's possessing the Crown of Great Britain.
1713 An Essay on the Treaty of Commerce with France
1713 Some Further Observations the Treaty of Navigation and Commerce Between Great Britain and France
1715 An Appeal to Honour and Justice, though it be of his worst enemies.
1716 Remarks on the Speeches of William Paul Clerk, etc.
1724 A Narrative of the Proceedings in France, etc.
1728 Second Thoughts are Best
1729 The Compleat English Gentleman
1729 An Humble Proposal to the People of England, for the Encrease of their Trade, and Encouragement of their Manufactures.
Daniel Defoe: His Life, and Recently Discovered Writings Extending From 1716 to 1729. By William Lee, Volumes II and III (Contains numerous texts from Defoe's various journals [e.g., Merecurius Politicus, Mist's Journal, Applebees Journal, etc.]. I have not thoroughly proofed or formated these texts.)
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