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== Selected works == === Novels === * ''[[The Consolidator|The Consolidator, or Memoirs of Sundry Transactions from the World in the Moon: Translated from the Lunar Language]]'' (1705)<ref name=SFE>[http://www.sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/defoe_daniel "Defoe, Daniel"]. ''[[The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction]]''. Online edition (3rd ed., 2011). Biographical entry by editors John Clute and Peter Nicholls. Retrieved 12 September 2019.</ref> * ''[[Robinson Crusoe]]'' (1719) β originally published in two volumes:<ref name=SFE/> ** ''The Life and Strange Surprizing Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, of York, Mariner: Who Lived Eight and Twenty Years [...]'' ** ''[[The Farther Adventures of Robinson Crusoe]]: Being the Second and Last Part of His Life [...]'' * ''[[Serious Reflections of Robinson Crusoe|Serious Reflections During the Life and Surprising Adventures of Robinson Crusoe: With his Vision of the Angelick World]]'' (1720) * ''[[Captain Singleton]]'' (1720) * ''[[Memoirs of a Cavalier]]'' (1720) * ''[[A Journal of the Plague Year]]'' (1722) * ''[[Colonel Jack]]'' (1722) * ''[[Moll Flanders]]'' (1722) * ''[[Roxana: The Fortunate Mistress]]'' (1724) * ''The Four Years Voyages of Capt. George Roberts'' (1726) === Nonfiction === * ''[https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/73564 The Buccaneers and Marooners of America]'' (1684) but this is a later (1891) illustrated version with details of the book's history. * ''[[An Essay Upon Projects]]'' (1697) β subsections of the text include: "The History of Projects," "Of Projectors," "Of Banks," "Of the Highways," "Of Assurances," "Of Friendly Societies," "The Proposal is for a Pension Office," "Of Wagering," "Of Fools," "A Charity-Lottery," "Of Bankrupts," "Of Academies" (including a section proposing an academy for women), "Of a Court Merchant," and "Of Seamen." * ''[[The Storm (Daniel Defoe)|The Storm]]'' (1704) β describes the worst storm ever to hit Britain in recorded times. Includes eyewitness accounts. * ''Atlantis Major'' (1711) * ''The Family Instructor'' (1715) * ''Memoirs of the Church of Scotland'' (1717) * ''The History of the Remarkable Life of John Sheppard'' (1724) β describing Sheppard's life of crime and concluding with the miraculous escapes from prison that made him a public sensation. * ''A Narrative of All The Robberies, Escapes, &c. of John Sheppard'' (1724) β written by or taken down from Sheppard himself in the condemned cell before he was hanged for theft, apparently by way of conclusion to Defoe's work. According to the Introduction to Volume 16 of the works of Defoe published by J.M. Dent in 1895, Sheppard handed the manuscript to the publisher Applebee from the prisoners' cart as he was taken away to be hanged. Defoe's edition of the text includes corrections of factual details and an explanation of how Sheppard's escapes from prison were achieved. * ''[[A Tour thro' the Whole Island of Great Britain]]'' (1724β1727) * ''A New Voyage Round the World'' (1724) * ''[[The Political History of the Devil]]'' (1726) * ''The Complete English Tradesman'' (1726) * ''[[Conjugal Lewdness|A Treatise Concerning the Use and Abuse of the Marriage Bed]]...'' (1727) * ''[[A Plan of the English Commerce]]'' (1728) β describes how the English woolen textile [[Industrialisation|industrial base]] was developed by the [[protectionism|protectionist]] measures of the [[House of Tudor|Tudor]] monarchs, especially [[Henry VII of England]] and [[Elizabeth I]], including high [[tariff]]s on the importation of finished woollen goods, high taxes on raw wool leaving England, bringing in artisans skilled in wool textile manufacturing from the [[Low Countries]], selective [[government-granted monopoly]] rights, and government-sponsored [[industrial espionage]]. === Pamphlets or essays in prose === * ''The Poor Man's Plea'' (1698) * ''The History of the Kentish Petition'' (1701) * ''[[The Shortest Way with the Dissenters]]'' (1702) * ''[[The Great Law of Subordination Consider'd]]'' (1704) * ''Giving Alms No Charity, and Employing the Poor'' (1704) * ''[[The Apparition of Mrs. Veal]]'' (1706) * ''An Appeal to Honour and Justice, Tho' it be of his Worst Enemies, by Daniel Defoe, Being a True Account of His Conduct in Publick Affairs'' (1715) * ''A Vindication of the Press: Or, An Essay on the Usefulness of Writing, on Criticism, and the Qualification of Authors'' (1718) * ''[[Every-body's Business, Is No-body's Business]]'' (1725) * ''[[The Protestant Monastery]]'' (1726) * ''[[Parochial Tyranny]]'' (1727) * ''[[Augusta Triumphans]]'' (1728) * ''[[Second Thoughts are Best]]'' (1729) * ''An Essay Upon Literature'' (1726) * ''[[Mere Nature Delineated]]'' (1726) * ''[[Conjugal Lewdness]]'' (1727) β Anti-Contraception Essay === Pamphlets or essays in verse === * ''[[The True-Born Englishman]]: A Satyr'' (1701) * ''Hymn to the Pillory'' (1703) * ''An Essay on the Late Storm'' (1704) === Some contested works attributed to Defoe === * ''A Friendly Epistle by way of reproof from one of the people called Quakers, to T. B., a dealer in many words'' (1715). * ''[[The King of Pirates]]'' (1719) β purporting to be an account of the pirate [[Henry Avery]]. * ''The Pirate Gow'' (1725) β an account of [[John Gow]]. * ''[[A General History of the Pyrates]]'' (1724, 1725, 1726, 1828) β published in two volumes by Charles Rivington, who had a shop near [[St. Paul's Cathedral]], London. Published under the name of [[Captain Charles Johnson]], it sold in many editions. * Captain Carleton's ''Memoirs of an English Officer'' (1728).<ref>{{cite journal |last=Baine |first=Rodney M. |title=Daniel Defoe and Captain Caneton's Memoirs of an English Officer |journal=Texas Studies in Literature and Language |date=1972 |volume=13 |issue=4 |pages=613β627 |jstor=40755201}}</ref> * ''[[Christian Davies|The life and adventures of Mrs. Christian Davies, commonly call'd Mother Ross]]'' (1740) β published anonymously; printed and sold by R. Montagu in London; and attributed to Defoe but more recently not accepted by Moore.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://collections.soane.org/b10155 |department=Catalog entry: in several campaigns under King William and the late Duke of Marlborough, in the quality of a foot-soldier and dragoon, gave many signal proofs of an unparallell'd courage and personal bravery. Taken from her own mouth when a pensioner of Chelsea-Hospital, and known to be true by many who were engaged in those great scenes of action. |title=The life and adventures of Mrs. Christian Davies, commonly call'd Mother Ross |website=Sir John Soane's Museum Collection Online |access-date=16 March 2019}}</ref>
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