Defoe, Daniel. Freebooters and Buccaneers: Novels of Adventure and Piracy - The Life, Adventures and Piracies of Captain Singleton; The King of Pirates: Being an Account of the Famous Enterprises of Captain Avery with Lives of Other Pirates and Robbers, with the Author's Preface; A New Voyage around the World. 1720, 1719, 1725. Ed. G. H. Maynadier. New York: The Dial Press, 1935.
The Novels and Selected Writings of Daniel Defoe
Elizabeth Bishop's favourite book was (allegedly) Daniel Defoe's A Journal of the Plague Year, and one can see how his mastery of the plain style was a strong influence on her work as a whole.
He's one of those authors who lives in a permanent state of flux. So many books and pamphlets have been attributed to him over the years that it seems impossible that any one person could have written so much. Probably because only some of them are actually his. Which ones, though? I suppose that's the main reason for the proliferating forests of collected editions and single volume reprints of his works.
The one listed above is particularly handsome, I think. There's a companion volume which reprints the whole of Robinson Crusoe, but I don't really need that one. I have quite enough editions of that particular novel already.
Probably the best of these is included in the first three volumes of the Shakespeare Head Edition of the Novels and Selected Writings of Daniel Defoe. I have six volumes of a paperback reprint in a very handsome boxset. It'd be great to get the other volumes, but (again) I don't really need them:
- Defoe, Daniel. The Shakespeare Head Edition of the Novels and Selected Writings of Daniel Defoe. 1927-28. Oxford: Basil Blackwell / Stratford-upon-Avon: The Shakespeare Head Press / London: William Clowes & Sons Limited, 1974.
- The Life and Strange Surprizing Adventures of Robinson Crusoe of York, Mariner. 1719. Vol. I.
- The Life and Strange Surprizing Adventures of Robinson Crusoe of York, Mariner. 1719. Vol. II.
- The Farther Adventures of Robinson Crusoe. 1719. Vol. III.
- A Journal of the Plague Year. 1722.
- The Fortunate Mistress. 1724. Vol. I.
- The Fortunate Mistress. 1724. Vol. II.
- Defoe, Daniel. The Shakespeare Head Edition of the Novels and Selected Writings of Daniel Defoe (1927-28)
- The Shortest Way with the Dissenters and other pamphlets. 1702.
- Captain Singleton. 1720.
- Memoirs of a Cavalier. 1720.
- Moll Flanders. 1722. Vol. I.
- Moll Flanders. 1722. Vol. II.
- Colonel Jack. 1722. Vol. I.
- Colonel Jack. 1722. Vol. II.
- A Plan of the English Commerce. 1728.
The Shakespeare Head Edition of the Novels and Selected Writings of Daniel Defoe (1974):
Robinson Crusoe (3 vols.) / A Journal of the Plague Year / The Fortunate Mistress (2 vols.) / Captain Singleton / Memoirs of a Cavalier / Moll Flanders (2 vols.) / Colonel Jack (2 vols.)
Here are the other volumes in the series:
The Shakespeare Head Edition of the Novels and Selected Writings of Daniel Defoe (1927):
A Plan of the English Commerce / The Shortest Way with the Dissenters and other pamphlets / Robinson Crusoe (3 vols.) / A Journal of the Plague Year / Moll Flanders (2 vols.) / Memoirs of a Cavalier / The Fortunate Mistress (2 vols.) / Colonel Jack (2 vols.) / Captain Singleton
And here are some other editions of Robinson Crusoe, in particular:
- Defoe, Daniel. The Life and Adventures of Robinson Crusoe. 1719. Ed. Angus Ross. 1965. Penguin English Library. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1970.
- Defoe, Daniel. Robinson Crusoe / The Farther Adventures of Robinson Crusoe. 1719. Introduction by Frederick Brereton. Collins Classics. London & Glasgow: William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd., 1961.
- Defoe, Daniel. Robinson Crusoe: The Life and Strange Surprising Adventures of Robinson Crusoe of York, Mariner; The Further Adventures of Robinson Crusoe. 1719. Introduction by Guy N. Pocock. 1945. Everyman’s Library, 1059. London: J. M. Dent & Sons Ltd. / New York: E. P. Dutton & Co. Inc., 1966.
Here's an interesting old nineteenth-century edition of Defoe's works, edited (presumably) by the famous essayist Hazlitt's son, also named William:
- Hazlitt, William, ed. The Works of Daniel De Foe, with a Memoir of His Life and Writings. 2 vols. London: John Clements, 1840. Vol 1:
- Life of Daniel De Foe, by the Editor. 1840.
- Catalogue of the Works of Daniel De Foe.
- Appeal to Honour and Justice. 1715.
- History of Colonel Jack. 1722.
- Fortunes and Misfortunes of Moll Flanders. 1722.
- Memoirs of a Cavalier. 1720.
- Fortunate Mistress; or, History of Roxana. 1724.
- A New Voyage round the World. 1725.
- Hazlitt, William, ed. The Works of Daniel De Foe, with a Memoir of His Life and Writings. 2 vols. London: John Clements, 1841. Vol 2:
- History of Mr Duncan Campbell. 1720.
- Dumb Philosopher; or, Account of Dickory Cronke. 1719
- Journal of the Plague Year. 1722.
- Memoirs of Captain Carleton. 1728.
- Life and Adventures of Robinson Crusoe. 1719.
- Further Adventures of Robinson Crusoe. 1719.
- Serious Reflections of Robinson Crusoe. 1720.
- Life and Piracies of Captain Singleton. 1720.
- Memoirs of the Church of Scotland. 1717.
The Works of Daniel De Foe (8 vols: 1903-4):
Vol. I: "The Life and Strange Adventures of Robinson Crusoe" & "The Farther Adventures of Robinson Crusoe"
Vol. II: "Serious Reflections During the Life of Robinson Crusoe" & "The Life of Mr. Duncan Campbell"
Vol. III: "Memoirs of a Cavalier" & "The Life, Adventures and Piracies of Captain Singleton"
Vol. IV: "The Fortunes and Misfortunes of the Famous Moll Flanders"
Vol. V: "A Journal of the Plague Year" & "A New Voyage Round the World"
Vol. VI: "The History and Remarkable Life of the Truly Honorable Colonel Jacque, Commonly Called Colonel Jack"
Vol. VII: "The Life of Roxana"
Vol. VIII: "The King of Pirates" & "Captain Avery with Lives of Other Pirates and Robbers"
And here are some other pieces of Defoe-iana picked up here and there, without any particular system, along the way:
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Daniel Defoe (c.1660-1731)
- Defoe, Daniel. The True-Born Englishman and Other Writings. 1700. Ed. P. N. Furbank & W. R. Owens. Penguin Classics. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1997.
- Defoe, Daniel. The Storm. 1704. Ed. Richard Hamblyn. London: Allen Lane, 2003.
- Defoe, Daniel. The Life, Adventures and Piracies of the Famous Captain Singleton. 1720. Introduction by James Sutherland. 1963. Everyman’s Library, 1074. London: J. M. Dent & Sons Ltd. / New York: E. P. Dutton & Co. Inc., 1969.
- Defoe, Daniel. Captain Singleton. 1720. Ed. Shiv K. Kumar. Oxford English Novels. Ed. James Kinsley. 1969. London: Oxford University Press, 1973.
- Defoe, Daniel. Memoirs of a Cavalier. 1720. Introduction by G. A. Aitken. 1908. Everyman’s Library, 283. London: J. M. Dent & Sons Ltd. / New York: E. P. Dutton & Co. Inc., 1933.
- Defoe, Daniel. The History and Remarkable Life of the Truly Honourable Colonel Jack. 1722. Wood Engravings by John Lawrence. London: The Folio Society, 1967.
- Defoe, Daniel. A Journal of the Plague Year: Being Observations or Memorials of the Most Remarkable Occurrences, as well Public as Private, which Happened in London during the Last Great Visitation in 1665. Written by a Citizen who Continued all the while in London. Never made Public Before. 1722. Ed. Anthony Burgess & Christopher Bristow. Introduction by Anthony Burgess. 1966. Penguin English Library. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1978.
- Defoe, Daniel. The Fortunes and Misfortunes of the Famous Moll Flanders &c. Who Was Born in Newgate, and During a Life of Continued Variety for Threescore Years, Besides Her Childhood, was Twelve Year a Whore, Five Times a Wife (Whereof Once to Her Own Brother), Twelve Year a Thief, Eight Year a Transported Felon in Virginia, at Last Grew Rich, Lived Honest & Died a Penitent, Written From Her Own Memorandums. 1722. Foreword by Oliver St. John Gogarty. Black & White Illustrations by Arthur Wragg. 1948. London: Rockliff Publishing Corporation Limited, 1950.
- Defoe, Daniel. The Fortunes and Misfortunes of the Famous Moll Flanders. 1722. Ed. Juliet Mitchell. Penguin English Library. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1978.
- Defoe, Daniel. Roxana: The Fortunate Mistress. 1724. Ed. Jane Jack. 1964. Oxford English Novels. London: Oxford University Press, 1969.
- Defoe, Daniel [as ‘Captain Charles Johnson’]. A General History of the Pyrates. 1724. Ed. Manuel Schonhorn. 1972. Dover Maritime Books. New York: Dover Publications, Inc., 1999.
- Defoe, Daniel. A Tour Through the Whole Island of Great Britain. 1724-26. Ed. Pat Rogers. Penguin English Library. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1971.
- Defoe, Daniel. A Tour Through the Whole Island of Great Britain. 1724-26. Ed. G. D. H. Cole. 1974. 3 vols. Introduction by Pat Rogers. London: The Folio Society, 1983.
- Healey, George Harris, ed. The Letters of Daniel Defoe. Oxford: The Clarendon Press, 1955.
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