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An essay on the history and reality of apparitions; Stoke Newington Daniel Defoe edition.(Brief Article)(Book Review)

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An essay on the history and reality of apparitions; Stoke Newington Daniel Defoe edition.

Defoe, Daniel. Ed. by Kit Kincade.

AMS Press

2007

463 pages

$158.50

Hardcover

The works of Daniel Defoe; AMS series in the eighteenth century; v.56

BF1461

The book was first published in 1727 anonymously, and only attributed to Defoe 22 years after his death. In it he argues that apparitions do indeed exist but not in the way that simple people of earlier times believed; and he explains why they are in the world and how people should ...

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