The complete online text of The Consolidator 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...

Consolidating town, village of Rochester would decrease tax rate, panel finds Duplicated operating costs would be eliminated if communities merge By TONY ANGELO Special to the Journal Sentinel Sunday, August 6, 2000 Rochester -- Consolidating the town and village...

The point of school consolidation legislation, which strongly won legislative support last year, was to reduce administrative expenses for both property tax relief and to direct more money toward instruction. That goal was muddied, if not lost, as lawmakers wrestled with a bill meant...

Greeting-card maker American Greetings Corp. on Thursday said its third-quarter earnings rose sharply, helped by a one-time gain from the consolidation of some its retailers. Its shares jumped on the news.Earnings for the quarter ended Nov. 24 increased to $49.7 million, or 83 cents per...

WASHINGTON (AP _ The Energy Department plans to send plutonium in Washington state and at research laboratories in New Mexico and California to the Savannah River nuclear complex in South Carolina to improve security and reduce storage costs.The department said Wednesday that the plutonium shipments,...