The Adventures of Roderick Random by Tobias Smollett: “…me if I had got never a piece of secret history, thrown into a series of letters, or a volume of adventures, such as those of Robinson Crusoe, and Colonel Jack, or a collection of Conundrums, wherewith to entertain the plantations.”
Babel by R. F. Kuang: “the wet, crumpled fingerprints he left on a new edition of Defoe's Colonel Jack shamed him enough to make him give up the practice”