Works of Daniel Defoe

The Pickering & Chatto Edition of the Works of Daniel Defoe is the most comprehensive collection ever attempted of the writings of this extraordinary man. Grouped under five thematic headings, plus his 1704-1712 Review, it aims, in 63 volumes, to give as extensive a representation as possible of Defoe’s work in all the literary genres to which he contributed. Although Defoe is now mainly considered a novelist—the author of such famous works as Robinson Crusoe and “Moll Flanders”—this is not how he was regarded by his contemporaries. His reputation in his lifetime was as a poet, a journalist, and a polemical writer on political, economic and social affairs. The quantity and range of his writings is unparalleled in English Literature, and few (if any) writers have made such an impact in so many different literary genres.