Selections From Defoes Minor Novels PDF Download

Excerpt from Selections From Defoe's Minor Novels Although Defoe has never been edited as a whole, and is, unless a great change takes place in the habits of English book-buyers, very unlikely to be so, he has had his fair share of partial collections in greater or smaller extent. I am not aware, however, of any attempt to deal with him in the way here proposed. The nearest thing to it is the rather abundant bundle of extracts given in Mr. Arber's English Garner, vol. vii., in which the selections are wholly political. Of such matter I have myself included nothing, the ever famous Shortest Way being reprinted in another volume of this series. The whole of my excerpts here will be from the works of fiction by which Defoe gained his greatest popularity, and in which his unrivalled talents for description and narrative appear. A selection from the lighter passages of his miscellaneous work may follow. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.