title: Memoirs of a Cavalier (The World's Classics)
author:  Daniel Defoe 
description: Defoe was one of the great character writers of his time. He shows that skill well in this novel about the middle of English society.
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  Memoirs of a Cavalier
  
  
    
    
  [INTRODUCTION.](Memoirs%20of%20a%20Cavalier_split_001.html#filepos2892)  
    
  [PREFACE TO THE FIRST
  EDITION.](Memoirs%20of%20a%20Cavalier_split_001.html#filepos15075)
  
  
    
    
  [MEMOIRS OF A
  CAVALIER.](Memoirs%20of%20a%20Cavalier_split_002.html#filepos23927)
  
  
    
    
  [PART I.](Memoirs%20of%20a%20Cavalier_split_002.html#filepos24029)  
    
  [THE SECOND PART](Memoirs%20of%20a%20Cavalier_split_003.html#filepos275921)  
    
  [NOTES.](Memoirs%20of%20a%20Cavalier_split_005.html#filepos610396)
  
  
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  # Memoirs of a Cavalier
  
  
  ### Daniel Defoe
  
  
  This page formatted 2004 Blackmask Online.
  
  
  http://www.blackmask.com  
    
  
  * INTRODUCTION.
  
  
  * PREFACE TO THE FIRST EDITION.
  
  
  
  
  
  * [MEMOIRS OF A CAVALIER.](Memoirs%20of%20a%20Cavalier_split_002.html#filepos23927)
  
  
    * [PART I.](Memoirs%20of%20a%20Cavalier_split_002.html#filepos24029)
  
  
  * [THE SECOND PART](Memoirs%20