History of the Devil," 1726. "Essay upon Literature and the Original of
Letters," 1726. "History of Discoveries," 1726-7. "The Protestant
Monastery," 1726. "A System of Magic," 1726. "Parochial Tyranny," 1727.
"Treatise concerning Use and Abuse of Marriage," 1727. "Secrets of
Invisible World Discovered; or, History and Reality of Apparitions," 1727,
1728. "A New Family Instructor," 1728. "Augusta Triumphans," 1728. "Plan of
English Commerce," 1728. "Second Thoughts are Best" (on Street Robberies),
1728. "Street Robberies Considered," 1728. "Humble Proposal to People of
England for Increase of Trade, &c.," 1729. "Preface to R. Dodsley's Poem
'Servitude'" 1729. "Effectual Scheme for Preventing Street Robberies,"
1731.

Besides the above-named publications a large number of further tracts by
Defoe are extant, on matters of Politics and Church.




THE LIFE, ADVENTURES, AND PIRACIES
OF CAPTAIN SINGLETON


As it is usual for great persons, whose lives have been remarkable, and
whose actions deserve recording to posterity, to insist much upon their
originals, give full accounts of their families, and the histories of their
ancestors, so, that I may be methodical, I shall do the same, though I can
look but a very little way into my pedigree, as you will see presently.

If I may believe the woman whom I was taught to call mother, I was a little
boy, of about two years old, very well dressed, had a nursery-maid to