The complete online text of The Complete English Tradesman (1839 ed.) by Daniel Defoe.

The English novelist, journalist, poet, and government agent Daniel Defoe (1660-1731) wrote more than 500 books, pamphlets, articles, and poems. Among the most productive authors of the Augustan Age, he was the first of the great 18th-century English nov...

Defoe's modern literary reputation is based almost entirely on the series of prose narratives that he wrote from 1719 to 1724. In April of 1719 Robinson Crusoe was published; with the success of that work, he went on to write a sequel which was only slig...

Daniel Defoe's modern literary reputation is based almost entirely on the series of prose narratives that he wrote from 1719 to 1724. In April of 1719 Robinson Crusoe was published; with the success of that work, he went on to write a sequel that was onl...

Nancy Cox. The Complete Tradesman: A Study of Retailing, 1550-1820. Burlington, Vt.: Ashgate. 2000. Pp. xiv, 270. $79.95. ISBN 1-85928-169-9. Recent years have witnessed considerable growth in interest in early modern consumerism in both North America and Europe, with a plethora of...

Daniel Defoe used the discourse of the marketplace in his novel 'The Compleat Tradesman.' At the time the novel was written, accounting practice was well-established as the Truthsayer in the marketplace and that the transparency of the accounting text assures the reader/creditor that it...