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: Blaise Pascal
Discourse on the Passion of Love, by Blaise Pascal
Introductory Note: Benvenuto Cellini
Autobiography (Vol. I, Ch. XXXIV-XXXVIII), by Benvenuto Cellini
Introductory Note: Abraham Lincoln
The Gettysburg Address and Other Writings, by Abraham Lincoln
Introductory Note: René Descartes
Discourse on the Method (Part I-II), by René Descartes
Introductory Note: Voltaire
Letters on the English (XVIII-XIX), by Voltaire
Introductory Note: Tacitus
Germany, by Tacitus
Introductory Note: Robert Burns
Poems, by Robert Burns
Introductory Note: Samuel Johnson
Letter to Lord Chesterfield, by Samuel Johnson
Introductory Note: Christopher Marlowe
Edward the Second (Act V), by Christopher Marlowe
Introductory Note: The Thousand and One Nights
The Thousand and One Nights (The Second Voyage of Es-Sindibad of the Sea)
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