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Daniel Defoe
Daniel Defoe (c.1659 – 24 April 1731), born Daniel Foe, was an English writer, journalist, and pamphleteer, who gained enduring fame for his novel Robinson Crusoe. Defoe is notable for being one of the earliest proponents of the novel, as he helped to popularise the form in Britain, and is even...
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Robinson Crusoe
Robinson Crusoe is a novel by Daniel Defoe. It was first published in 1719, and is sometimes considered to be the first novel in English. The book, although based on the true story of a Scotsman, Alexander Selkirk, is a fictional autobiography of...
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- 1719
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- Apr 25, 1719
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- 21086
The Further Adventures of Robinson Crusoe
The title-page of the less known Part II of Robinson Crusoe's further adventures shows this text: THE FARTHER ADVENTURES OF ROBINSON CRUSOE; Being the Second and Last Part OF HIS LIFE, And of the Strange Surprizing Accounts of his Travels Round...
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- 1719
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- 1719
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A Journal of the Plague Year
A Journal of the Plague Year is a novel by Daniel Defoe, first published in March 1722.
The novel is a fictionalised account of one man's experiences of the year 1665, in which the Great Plague struck the city of London. The book is told roughly...
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- 1722
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- 1722
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- 21089
Moll Flanders
The Fortunes and Misfortunes of the Famous Moll Flanders (commonly known as simply "Moll Flanders") is a novel written by Daniel Defoe in 1722.
Defoe wrote this after his work as a journalist and pamphleteer. By 1722, Defoe had become recognised as...
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- 1722
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- Jan 1722
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Captain Singleton
The Life, Adventures and Piracies of the Famous Captain Singleton (1720) is a novel by Daniel Defoe.
The narrative describes the life of an Englishman, stolen from a well-to-do family as a child and raised by Gypsies who eventually makes his way to...
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- 1720
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Roxana: The Fortunate Mistress
Roxana: The Fortunate Mistress is a 1724 novel by Daniel Defoe.
The full title of the novel is Roxana: The Fortunate Mistress Or, a History of the Life and Vast Variety of Fortunes of Mademoiselle de Beleau, Afterwards Called the Countess de...
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- 1724
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- 1724
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A tour thro' the Whole Island of Great Britain
A tour thro' the Whole Island of Great Britain is an account of his travels by English author Daniel Defoe, first published in three volumes from 1724 to 1726.
A non-fiction work that gives a matter-of-fact account of Defoe's visits to various...
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- 1724
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Memoirs of a Cavalier
Memoirs of a Cavalier (1720) is a work of historical fiction by Daniel Defoe, set during the Thirty Years' War and the English Civil Wars. The full title, which bore no date, was:
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- 1720
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letters of Daniel Defoe
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Romans Vol. 1
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England's late jury
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Banbury Convert
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political sow-gelder
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king of pirates
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Protestant monastery
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Dickory Cronke
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Wise as serpents
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Madagascar
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