Excerpt from The Novels and Miscellaneous Works of Daniel De Foe: With Preface and Notes, Including Those Attributed to Sir Walter Scott Tm: world is so taken up of late with Novels and Romances, that it will be hard for a private history to be taken for genuine, where the names and other circumstances of the person are concealed and on this account we must be con tent to leave the reader to pass his own Opinion upon the ensuing sheets, and take it just as he pleases. The author is here supposed to be writing her own history, and in the very beginning of her account she gives the reasons why she thinks fit to conceal her true name, after which there is no occasion to say any more about that. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.