Principal Works
An Essay upon Projects (essay) 1697
The True-Born Englishman (poetry) 1701
The Shortest Way with the Dissenters; or, Proposals for the Establishment of the Church (satire) 1702
A Hymn to the Pillory (poetry) 1703
An Essay on the Regulation of the Press (essay) 1704
The Storm; or, A Collection of the Most Remarkable Casualties and Disasters which Happened in the Late Dreadful Tempest, Both by Sea and Land (history) 1704
A True Relation of the Apparition of One Mrs. Veal, the Next Day After Her Death, to One Mrs. Bar-grave, at Canterbury, the 8th of September, 1705 (essay) 1705
Jure Divino (poetry) 1706
The History of the Union of Great Britain (history) 1709
The Family Instructor (handbook) 1715
A Vindication of the Press; or, An Essay on the Usefulness of Writing, On Criticism, and the Qualification of Authors (essay) 1718
*The Life and Strange Surprising Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, of York, Mariner: Who Lived Eight and Twenty Years All Alone, in an Uninhabited Island on the Coast of America, Near the Mouth of the Great River Oroonoque (novel) 1719
*The Farther Adventures of Robinson Crusoe: Being the Second and Last Part of His Life; and the Strange Surprising Accounts of His Travels Round Three Parts of the Globe (novel) 1719
The History of the Life and Adventures of Mr. Duncan Campbell, a Gentleman (novel) 1720
The Life, Adventures, and Pyracies of the Famous Captain Singleton (novel) 1720
Memoirs of a Cavalier; or, A Military Journal of the Wars in Germany, and the Wars in England, from the Year 1632 to the Year 1648 (novel) 1720
*Serious Reflections during the Life and Surprising Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, with His Vision of the Angelick World (novel) 1720
The Fortunes and Misfortunes of the Famous Moll Flanders (novel) 1721
The History of the Most Remarkable Life and Extraordinary Adventures of the Truly Honourable Colonel Jacque, Vulgarly Called Colonel Jack (novel) 1722
A Journal of the Plague Year: Being Observations or Memorials of the Most Remarkable Occurences, as Well as Publick as Private, which Happened in London during the Last Great Visitation in 1665 (fictional history) 1722
A Tour Through the Whole Island of Great Britain. 3 vols. (travel essays and history) 1724–27
The Fortunate Mistress; or, A History of the Life and Vast Variety of Fortunes of Mademoiselle de Belau, Afterwards Called the Countess de Wintelsheim, in Germany: Being the Person Known by the Name of the Lady Roxana, in the Time of King Charles II (novel) 1724
The Political History of the Devil, as Well Antient as Modern (fictional history) 1726
The Compleat English Tradesman. 2 vols. (handbook) 1727
An Essay on the History and Reality of Apparitions (essay) 1727
The Military Memoirs of Captain George Carleton, from the Dutch War, 1672, in which He Served, to the Conclusion of the Peace at Utrecht, 1713 (novel) 1728
A Plan of the English Commerce, Being a Compleat Prospect of the Trade of This Nation, as well as the Home Trade as the Foreign (essay) 1730
Novels and Miscellaneous Works of Daniel Defoe. 7 vols. (novels, history, essays, fictional history, fictional journal, and poetry) 1856–84
**The Compleat English Gentleman: Containing Useful Observations on the General Neglect of the Education of English Gentlemen, with the Reason and Remedies (handbook) 1890
The Works of Daniel Defoe 16 vols. (novels, history, essays, fictional history, fictional journal, fictional memoirs, and poetry) 1903–04
Defoe’s Review: 1704–13. 22 vols, (essays and journalism) 1938
The Letters of Daniel Defoe (letters) 1955
*These two works are collectively referred to as Robinson Crusoe.
**This work was written in 1729.
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