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Excerpt from The Novels and Miscellaneous Works of Daniel De Foe: With Prefaces and Notes, Including Those Attributed to Sir Walter Scott The history of this beautiful lady is to speak for itself; if it is not as beautiful as the lady herself is reported to be; if it is not as diverting as the reader can desire, and much more than he can reasonably expect, and if all the most diverting parts of it are not adapted to the instruction and improvement of the reader, the relator says it must be from the defect of his performance; dressing up the story in worse clothes than the lady whose words he speaks, prepared for the world. He takes the liberty to say, that this story differs from most of the modern performances of this kind, though some of them have met with a very good reception in the world. I say, it differs from them in this great and essential article, namely, that the foundation of this is laid in truth of fact; and so the work is not a story, but a history. The scene is laid so near the place where the main part of it was transacted, that it was necessary to conceal names and persons; lest what cannot be yet entirely forgot in that part of the town should be remembered, and the facts traced back too plainly by the many people yet living, who would know the persons by the particulars. 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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Book category Books in English Children's, Teenage & educational Children's / Teenage fiction & true stories

• Full title: Novels and Miscellaneous Works of Daniel de Foe
• Subtitle: With Prefaces and Notes, Including Those Attributed to Sir Walter Scott (Classic Reprint)
• Author: Daniel Defoe
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 520
• EAN: 9781331490814
• ISBN: 9781331490814
• ID: 09756963
• Publisher: Forgotten Books
• Weight: 689 g
• Dimensions: 229 × 152 × 27 mm
• Date of publishing: 16. July 2015

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