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

Devotees of period dramas should not overlook a hidden gem that's been acclaimed as "one of the best", reports the Express.

LIFE AND TIMES OF DANIEL DEFOE; An Entertaining Consideration of the Author of "Robinson Crusoe" and His Work by John Masefield.

The wrecking of a vessel on a remote island, from "The Odyssey" to "The Tempest" to "Lost," is an evergreen beginning for stories about what makes us civilized and human. Daniel Defoe's Robinson ...

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For example, Daniel Defoe’s A Journal of the Plague Year, an early example of the nonfiction novel, written in 1722 about London’s Great Plague of 1665.

Almost everyone has at least heard of Daniel Defoe, or at the very least, his most famous work: The Life and Surprising Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, a Sailor of York. But aside from novels, Defoe ...

ROBINSON CRUSOE AND HIS CREATOR; Daniel Defoe's Fascinating Story, with All Its Immortal Characters, Reappears in an Attractive Edition.

That’s what makes Daniel Defoe, the founder of English journalism, such a thorny shrub. The hoaxers and the embellishers, the fake autobiographers, look on Defoe as a kind of patron saint. Defoe lied ...

Daniel Defoe survived one of the fiercest storms in British history to write the first substantial work of modern journalism and, 16 years later, "Robinson Crusoe." ...

Daniel Defoe’s literary hoaxesNicholson Baker (who we blogged about last week) expands on the mendacious literary legacy of Daniel Defoe in the Columbia Journalism Review. The founder of English ...