The brilliant wit and cutting satire of Defoe made for him friends and enemies --- but mostly enemies. So piercing and two-edged was "The Shortest-Way with Dissenters" that he was fined, imprisoned and pilloried. (Volume 27, Harvard Classics)
"The Shortest-Way with Dissenters" censored, Feb. 25. 1703.
Introductory Note: Edgar Allan Poe
The Raven, by Edgar Allan Poe
Introductory Note: Benvenuto Cellini
Autobiography (Vol. I, Ch. CVII-CXI), by Benvenuto Cellini
Introductory Note: William Penn
Some Fruits of Solitude in Reflections and Maxims, by William Penn
Introductory Note: The Life of Mr. George Herbert by Izaak Walton
The Life of Mr. George Herbert, by Izaak Walton
Introductory Note: Richard Henry Dana, Jr.
Two Years before the Mast (Ch. XVI), by Richard Henry Dana, Jr.
Introductory Note: Sir Richard Steele
The Spectator Club, by Sir Richard Steele
Introductory Note: Michel de Montaigne
Of the Institution and Education of Children, by Michel de Montaigne
Introductory Note: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Poems, by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Introductory Note: Victor Hugo
Preface to Cromwell, by Victor Hugo
Introductory Note: Daniel Defoe
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