was first published in three volumes, dated respectively 1724, 1725, and “1727” (for 1726). More than once, it has been called Daniel Defoe’s most characteristic work, a tribute to its obvious qualities – which include a deep familiarity with the physical, social and economic shape of the nation, combined with descriptive skill and a lively opinionated narrative. The

has been well described by Michael Shinagel as “the most graphic personal account of the condition of England, economically and socially, in the first quarter of the eighteenth century, a period that eludes a precise description because it was, as Defoe observed, a period of transition”. The book provides a comprehensive vision of Britain past and present, and…

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