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268 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 1722


’Tis evident by the long series of changes and turns which have appeared in the narrow compass of one private, mean person’s life, that the history of men’s lives may be many ways made useful and instructing to those who read them, if moral and religious improvement and reflections are made by those that write them.I can only suppose that, at the time Defoe wrote the book, the whole stance of piousness was one of the attractions. Times have changed.