The Works of Daniel Defoe, Vol. 1 of 2 (Classic Reprint) PDF Download

Author: Daniel Defoe
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ISBN: 9781330484081
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Languages : en
Pages : 318

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Excerpt from The Works of Daniel Defoe, Vol. 1 of 2 Moll Flanders, published in January, 1722, makes a claim, like so many of Defoe's narratives, to a manuscript source. There is no pretence, however, that the manuscript is reproduced exactly. "The original of this story is put into new words," wrote Defoe in his preface, "and the style of the famous lady we here speak of is a little altered..." It has generally been under-stood that this statement of our author was only a fiction to make his book sell; the opinion has never prevailed widely, as in the case of the Memo rs of a Cavalier, that this work was from another hand than Defoe's. True, some of the more ignorant eighteenth-century readers were imposed upon, as Defoe hoped they would be, and Moll Flanders has been accepted by a few people as a real person. A chap-book published in Dublin in 1730, which pretended to supplement Defoe's information about her, her "governess," and her Lancashire husband, stated that she and her husband settled finally in Galway, where she died in April, 1723, seventy-four years old. 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."