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Daniel Defoe (/ d ɪ ˈ f oʊ /; born Daniel Foe; c. 1660 – 24 April 1731) was an English novelist, journalist, merchant, pamphleteer and spy. He is most famous for his novel Robinson Crusoe , published in 1719, which is claimed to be second only to the Bible in its number of translations. [2]
5 days ago · Daniel Defoe (born 1660, London, Eng.—died April 24, 1731, London) was an English novelist, pamphleteer, and journalist, known as the author of Robinson Crusoe (1719–22) and Moll Flanders (1722).
Daniel Defoe, orig. Daniel Foe, (born 1660, London, Eng.—died April 24, 1731, London), British novelist, pamphleteer, and journalist. A well-educated London merchant, he became an acute economic theorist and began to write eloquent, witty, often audacious tracts on public affairs.
Daniel Defoe was a survivor—and that's an understatement. He was young and vulnerable when an outbreak of the bubonic plague attacked England, killing hundreds of thousands of people all...
Daniel Defoe (1660?-1731) Daniel Defoe was born and grew up in turbulent times. On Defoe’s birth, see J. A. Downie’s essay “Defoe’s Birth,” which you can access here. We would like to thank Professor Alan Downie and The Scriblerian and the Kit-Cats for their permission to post this essay here.
Merchant, political agent, bankrupt, journalist, propagandist and spy, Daniel Defoe was a key contributor to the Act of Union between England and Scotland in the 1700s and in fact...
Daniel Defoe - Novelist, Journalist, Satirist: With George I’s accession (1714), the Tories fell. The Whigs in their turn recognized Defoe’s value, and he continued to write for the government of the day and to carry out intelligence work.
Robinson Crusoe [a] ( / ˈkruːsoʊ / KROO-soh) is an English adventure novel by Daniel Defoe, first published on 25 April 1719.
Daniel Defoe (1659/1661 [?] - 1731) was an English writer, journalist, and spy, who gained enduring fame for his novel The life and strange surprizing adventures of Robinson Crusoe: of York, mariner (1719). Defoe is notable for being one of the earliest practitioners of the novel and helped popularize the genre in Britain.
When he wrote the first part of The Life and Strange Surprising Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, of York, Mariner, by far the best known of the 375 works with which he is authoritatively credited, Defoe was fifty-nine. By any standard he was one of the most remarkable men who ever lived.
