Preface
_ MEMOIRS OF A CAVALIER
or
A Military Journal of the Wars in Germany,
and the Wars in England. From the Year 1632
to the Year 1648.
By Daniel Defoe
Edited with Introduction and Notes by Elizabeth O‘Neill
1922
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INTRODUCTION.
Daniel Defoe is, perhaps, best known to us as the author of _Robinson Crusoe_, a book which has been the delight of generations of boys and girls ever since the beginning of the eighteenth century. For it was then that Defoe lived and wrote, being one of the new school of prose writers which grew up at that time and which gave England new forms of literature almost unknown to an earlier age. Defoe was a vigorous pamphleteer, writing first on the Whig side and later for the Tories in the reigns of William III and Anne. He did much to foster the growth of the newspaper, a form of literature which henceforth became popular. He also did much towards the development of the modern novel, though he did not write novels in our sen

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