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.
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Introductory Note: Hamlet by William Shakespeare
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Introductory Note: William Morris
The Defence of Guenevere, by William Morris
Introductory Note: The Thousand and One Nights
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Introductory Note: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Introductory Note: Virgil
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Introductory Note: Philip Massinger
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Introductory Note: Ernest Renan
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