Everybody’s Business Is Nobody’s Business by Daniel Defoe — Bibliomancer edition cover

Free to read online. No account needed.

Nonfiction · 1725

Everybody’s Business Is Nobody’s Business

Or, Private Abuses, Public Grievances; Exemplified in the Pride, Insolence, and Exorbitant Wages of Our Women, Servants, Footmen, &c.

Daniel Defoe

Reading time
about 32 min
Length
7,377 words · 35 pages
Structure
3 sections
Language
English
Era
Enlightenment

Everybody’s Business Is Nobody’s Business, first published in 1725, has been pulled into the Bibliomancer archive: the complete text, carefully cleaned and typeset, free to read online. Its editorial introduction is still being prepared.

Contents

  1. Note
  2. The Preface
  3. Everybody’s Business Is Nobody’s Business

New editions

Never lose your place.

This book is free to read in full, and stays that way. Leave an address: one click confirms it and opens a free account, so your progress and bookmarks sync across every device. You'll also hear when the next restored edition enters the archive. Terminate at any time.

Confirming opens a free account under the terms and privacy policy.

About this edition

The text is free of copyright. This edition was prepared from an authoritative digitisation, processed by Bibliomancer under its own review protocol; every automated correction is recorded in its transformation log. Rights assessed for CA, EU, GB, US.

Source mind

About the author

Daniel Defoe

1661–1731 · Enlightenment

Daniel Defoe (c. 1660–1731) was born in London, the son of a tallow chandler, and was in turn a merchant, a bankrupt, a pamphleteer pilloried for satire, a government agent, and one of the first journalists. He was nearly sixty when he published Robinson Crusoe (1719); Captain Singleton, Moll Flanders (1722), A Journal of the Plague Year (1722) and Roxana followed in quick succession.

Adjacent records

Open the archive