Excerpt from The Novels and Miscellaneous Works of Daniel De Foe: With Prefaces and Notes, Including Those Attributed to Sir Walter Scott The grand success of Robinson Crusoe having taught De Foe, after he had Spent nearly his whole life in en deavouring to instruct the public, that it was more willing to pay for being amused than taught, he moved along briskly in his career of novel writing, and in 1720 published The In]? And Pz'racies of Captain Singleton, which forms the subject of the present Volume. 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.

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