THIS book fulfills a need which should have been felt long ago--a biography of DeFoe approached from the historian's point of view. Father of the novel, among the first journalists, and author of ...

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. There isn’t much to ...

Years ago, in these pages, I confessed that I have read Daniel Defoe’s 1719 fictional tale, “The Adventures of Robinson Crusoe,” multiple times, as well as listened to the audio version. Crusoe’s ...

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 ...

Even the name "Daniel Defoe" was a pseudonym of sorts—born Daniel Foe, Defoe added the first syllable to his last name to sound more aristocratic. Wikimedia Commons “That horrid place! My very blood ...

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I read "Robinson Crusoe" many times over the years before learning that the book has a longer name. The full title of Daniel Defoe's novel, first published in 1719, is "The Life and Strange Surprising ...

On Daniel Defoe: The Life and Strange, Surprising Adventures by Richard West. Boswell records that Samuel Johnson had read Daniel Defoe and “allowed a considerable share of merit to a man, who, bred a ...

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