Daniel Defoe, the prolific writer, journalist, and pamphleteer, best known for his novel Robinson Crusoe (1719), passed away ...

To add to the hardship of his youth, Defoe lived through some of the most traumatic events in London during that century, such as the terrible Black Plague epidemic of 1665 and the Great Fire the ...

N spite of Mr. John Masefield's obvious disposition to regard Daniel Defoe as a forerunner of the modern “sociologist” rather than as a keen observer, with the gift of narrative and a strongly ...

Talk about writing for money! In 1692, a businessman named Daniel Defoe was forced into bankruptcy by a debt of £17,000 — a sum approaching US$4 million in today’s money. Defoe had succumbed to bad ...

Daniel Defoe's Robinson Crusoe may be the archetypal survivor, who endures his desert island by imposing his values on inhospitable surroundings.

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Before Daniel Defoe (1660-1731) wrote Robinson Crusoe, Moll Flanders, A Journal of the Plague Year and other great literary works, he tried his hand at business and investing.

Descendant of Daniel Defoe Dead. Share full article. Jan. 13, 1901. ... LONDON, Jan. 12.-James Defoe, the last male descendant of the author of “Robinson Crusoe,” died this week.

Crusoe: Daniel Defoe, Robert Knox and the Creation of a Myth Katherine Frank. Pegasus (Norton, dist.), $27.95 (368p) ISBN 978-1-60598-334-9 ...