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61. Defoe, Daniel, 1661?-1731. (attrib.)

The Compleat mendicant, or, Unhappy beggar : being the life of an unfortunate gentleman, in which is a comprehensive account of several of the most remarkable adventures that befel him in three and twenty years pilgrimage : also a narrative of his entrance at Oxford ... likewise divers familiar letters, both Latin and English, sermons, poems, essays, upon particular occasions, with a singular character of a monastick life, and the description of a monastery, all faithfully collected from his original papers. (London : Printed for E. Harris, 1699)

61. Defoe, Daniel, 1661?-1731. (attrib.) The Compleat mendicant

This is one of Defoe’s earliest narratives written as memoir, a genre which later became the modern novel.

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