Daniel Defoe

This account of the Great Plague of London (1664-65) was first published in 1722. In it Defoe describes the horrifying daily events in London city as it was besieged by bubonic plague.

A vessel perishes on the rocks, and a literary legend is born.Robinson Crusoe is a tale of survival. The desert island is a test of self-sufficiency. Crusoe's Eden and enemy, his Utopia and his prison. House, clothing, tools, and attitudes are made for this new world, with a little help from the wreck of the old. Crusoe becomes a bourgeois on an island, and builds a country house. And in this new world he finds a true innocent, a Good Friday. As Providence supplies a companion, so at last it permits release: Crusoe escapes from island to munificence, taking Friday with him. Deliverance or perdition? Adventure story or spiritual allegory? The reader too must make what he or she can of Defoe's island.

Daniel Defoe's faith-filled The Further Adventures of Robinson Crusoe finds Crusoe bored with his prosperity and consumed by an irresistible longing to return to the island he left many years before. Along with his trusty servant and companion, Friday, he embarks on a harrowing high-seas adventure that takes them to China, over the Russian steppes, and into Siberia. Readers will find themselves captivated by this sequel, which is every bit as engaging as the original.

xi • General Introduction (The Evil Image: Two Centuries of Gothic Short Fiction and Poetry) • essay by Patricia L. Skarda and Nora Crow Jaffe xxv • Critical Studies of the Gothic • essay by uncredited 2 • The Apparition of Mrs. Veal • (1919) • short story by Daniel Defoe (variant of A True Relation of the Apparition of One Mrs. Veal the Next Day After Her Death to One Mrs. Bargrave at Canterbury the 8th of September 1705 1706) 11 • On the Pleasures Derived from Objects of Terror; with Sir Bertrand, a Fragment • (1773) • short story by Anna Letitia Barbauld and John Aikin (variant of On the Pleasure Derived from Objects of Terror; with Sir Bertrand, A Fragment) [as by Dr. John Aikin and Anna Laetitia Aikin Barbauld] 18 • The Snow-Fiend • (1826) • poem by Ann Radcliffe 20 • December's Eve, Abroad • (1826) • poem by Ann Radcliffe 21 • December's Eve, At Home • (1826) • poem by Ann Radcliffe 23 • A Receipt for Writing a Novel • (1799) • poem by Mary Alcock 27 • Alonzo the Brave and Fair Imogine • (1796) • poem by Matthew Gregory Lewis 29 • Giles Jollup the Grave, and Brown Sally Green • (1801) • poem by Matthew Gregory Lewis 35 • "Christabel" • (1797) • poem by Samuel Taylor Coleridge (variant of Christabel 1816) 55 • Manfred: A Dramatic Poem • (1817) • poem by Lord George Gordon Byron 94 • The Vampyre: A Tale • [Lord Ruthven] • (1819) • novelette by Dr. John William Polidori 110 • A Fragment of a Novel • (1819) • short story by Lord George Gordon Byron (variant of Fragment of a Novel) 117 • Transformation • (1830) • short story by Mary Shelley (variant of The Transformation) 133 • Isabella, or The Pot of Basil • (1820) • poem by John Keats 153 • Wandering Willie's Tale • [Redgauntlet Excerpts] • (1824) • short story by Sir Walter Scott 169 • The Spectre Bridegroom • (1819) • short story by Washington Irving 182 • [Fall of the House of Usher](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL41078W)• (1839) • novelette by Edgar Allan Poe 199 • [Young Goodman Brown](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL455569W) • (1835) • short story by Nathaniel Hawthorne 212 • Rochester's Song to Jane Eyre • (unknown) • poem by Charlotte Brontë 214 • R. Alcona to J. Brenzaida • (1846) • poem by Emily Brontë 214 • Retrospection • (1835) • poem by Charlotte Brontë 215 • No Coward Soul Is Mine • (1846) • poem by Emily Brontë 218 • The Signalman • (1866) • short story by Charles Dickens 231 • Sister Helen • (1853) • poem by Dante Gabriel Rossetti 240 • Goblin Market • (1859) • poem by Christina Rossetti [as by Christina Georgina Rossetti] 256 • Green Tea • [Martin Hesselius] • (1869) • novelette by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu 285 • Perilous Play • (1869) • short story by Louisa May Alcott 298 • The Ghostly Rental • (1876) • novelette by Henry James 326 • The Stolen Child • (1886) • poem by William Butler Yeats 331 • Markheim • (1885) • short story by Robert Louis Stevenson 346 • The Darkling Thrush • (1900) • poem by Thomas Hardy (variant of By the Century's Deathbed) 347 • A Wasted Illness • (1901) • poem by Thomas Hardy 350 • The Monster • non-genre • (1898) • novella by Stephen Crane 400 • The Mezzotint • (1904) • short story by M. R. James 411 • Arabesque: The Mouse • (1920) • short story by A. E. Coppard 419 • [A Rose for Emily](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL82884W) • (1930) • short story by William Faulkner 429 • Clytie • (1941) • short story by Eudora Welty 442 • The River • non-genre • (1953) • short story by Flannery O'Connor 458 • Briar Rose (Sleeping Beauty) • (1971) • poem by Anne Sexton 465 • Suffer the Little Children • (1972) • short story by Stephen King 476 • Suggestions for Further Reading in the Gothic Tradition • essay by uncredited

By 1705 already an established and tempestuous pamphleteer and journalist, this is a wonderful example of Defoe's direct and inventive style. Acknowledging its debt to prior works by Godwin and Wilkins, The Consolidator uses 'the lunar world to satirize England's political and economic abuses and to anticipate scientific inventions' (Gibson). Although most critics are content to analyse it as a prototype Gulliveriad, it is also a fascinating document in itself. Most of the work is dedicated to lengthy descriptions of the world in the Moon, given veracity through the claim that all of this information has been accrued during the narrator's lengthy sojourn in China, a land which has 'many sorts of Learning which these Parts of the World never heard of'. Defoe's unusual sleight of hand here is to say that in fact, Chinese innovation is due almost exclusively to the writings of Mira-cho-cho-lasmo, an ancient visitor from the moon who instructed them in the 'most exquisite Accomplishments of those Lunar Regions'. According to Gove, after a handful of editions in the first decade of the eighteenth century, this work was not republished except in pamphlet and extract editions until a Tegg version in 1840. Scarce on the market, this is a wonderful work and testament to Defoe's enduring importance to the imaginary voyage.

LeFanu, J. S. Sir Dominick Sarsfield. Dickens, C. The story of the bagman's uncle. Jacobs, W. W. The monkey's paw. Scott, W., Sir. Wandering Willie's tale. Stoker, B. Dracula's guest. Oliphant, M. The open door. Shelley, M. The mortal immortal. Hawthorne, N. [Dr. Heidegger's Experiment](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL455515W) Dickens, C. No. 1 branch line, the signalman. Scott, W., Sir. The tapestried chamber. Edwards, A. B. The phantom coach. Collins, W. The dream woman. Defoe, D. The apparition of Mrs. Veal. Stoker, B. The judge's house. Marryat, F. The werewolf. Maupassant, G. de. The horla. Crawford, F. M. The upper berth. Bulwer-Lytton, E., Sir. The haunted and the haunters.

The Apparition of Mrs. Veal, Daniel Defoe Canon Alberic's Scrap-Book, Montague Rhodes James The Haunted and the Haunters, Edward Bulwer-Lytton The Silent Woman, Leopold Kompert The Man Who Went Too Far, E.F. Benson The Woman's Ghost Story, Algernon Blackwood The Phantom Rickshaw, Rudyard Kipling The Rival Ghosts, Brander Matthews [The Damned Thing](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL20084265W/The_Damned_Thing), Ambrose Bierce The Interval, Vincent O'Sullivan Dey Ain't No Ghosts, Ellis Parker Butler

Plates facing pp. 70, 157 and folded plate facing p. 259.

A right-rollicking yarn.