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Daniel Defoe

Daniel Defoe, 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 referred to by some as among the founders of the English novel. A prolific and versatile writer, he wrote more than 500 books, pamphlets, and journals on various topics (including politics, crime, religion, marriage, psychology and the supernatural). He was also a pioneer of economic journalism. (Source)

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Born 1661?
Died 24 April 1731

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  • Cover of: The Fortunes and misfortunes of the famous Moll Flanders

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  • Cover of: The Life and Strange, Surprising Adventures of Robinson Crusoe

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  • Cover of: The life, adventures, and pyracies, of the famous Captain Singleton: containing an account of his being set on shore in the island of Madagascar, his settlement there, with a description of the place and inhabitants: of his passage from thence, in a Paraguay, to the main land of Africa, with an account of the customs and manners of the people : his great deliverances from the barbarous natives and wild beasts : of his meeting with an Englishman, a citizen of London, among the Indians, the great riches he acquired, and his voyage home to England : as also Captain Singleton's return adventures and pyracies with the famous Captain Avery and others.

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  • Cover of: Memoirs of a cavalier ...

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  • Cover of: The life, adventures, & piracies of the famous Captain Singleton.

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  • Cover of: The consolidator: or, Memoirs of Sundry Transactions from the World in the Moon.

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  • Cover of: Religious courtship: being historical discourses on the necessity of marrying religious husbands and wives only, as also of husbands and wives being of the same opinions in religion with one another : with an appendix showing the necessity of taking none but religious servants and a proposal for the better managing of servants

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  • Cover of: The works of Daniel Defoe

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  • Cover of: The novels and miscellaneous works of Daniel De Foe

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  • Cover of: A General History of the Pyrates, from Their first Rise and Settlement in the Island of Providence, to the present Time.: With the remarkable Actions and Adventures of the two Female Pyrates Mary Read and Anne Bonny; Contain'd in the following Chapters, Introduction. Chap. I. Of Capt. Avery. II. Of Capt. Martel. III. Of Capt. Teach. IV. Of Capt. Bonnet. V. Of Capt. England. VI. Of Capt. Vane. VII. Of Capt. Rackham. VIII. Of Capt. Davis. IX. Of Capt. Roberts. X. Of Capt. Anstis. XI. Of Capt. Worley. XII. Of Capt. Lowther. XIII. Of Capt. Low. XIV. Of Capt. Evans. XV. Of Capt. Phillips. XVI. Of Capt. Spriggs. And their several Crews. To which is added. A short Abstract of the Statute and Civil Law, in Relation to Pyracy.

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    First published in 2009 — 16 editions
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  • Cover of: The King of Pirates: Being an Account of the Famous Enterprises of Captain Avery, the Mock King of Madagascar. With his Rambles and Piracies wherein All the Sham Accounts Formerly Publish'd of Him, are Detected.

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Born 1661?
Died 24 April 1731

Subjects

Fiction, Politics and government, History, Robinson Crusoe (Fictitious character), Castaways, British and irish fiction (fictional works by one author), Early works to 1800, Shipwreck survival, Crusoe, robinson (fictitious character), fiction, Islands, Pamphlets, Fiction, action & adventure, Juvenile fiction, Shipwrecks, Survival, Children's fiction, Adventure and adventurers, fiction, Great Britain, Pirates, Plague, Chang pian xiao shuo, Description and travel, Survival after airplane accidents, shipwrecks, Commerce, Devil

Places

Great Britain, England, Ying guo, Europe, London, London (England), Madagascar, Scotland, Spain, America, Araby, Araby bazaar, Atlantic Ocean, Florida, Foreign countries, Fountain of Youth, France, North Richmond Street, Women, 1665 London, 18th century, City of London, Early works to 1900, Germany, Inglaterra

People

Daniel Defoe (1661?-1731), Duncan Campbell (1680?-1730), Colonel Killigrew, Daniel Defoe (1660 or 1-1731), Dr. Heidegger, James Prince of Wales (1688-1766), John Trenchard (1662-1723), Jonathan Wild (1682?-1725), Mangan's sister, Mr. Gascoigne, Mr. Medbourne, Robinson Crusoe (Fictitious character), Sylvia Ward, Widow Wycherley, Alexander Selkirk (1676-1721), Alfred Doolittle, C. Auguste Dupin, C. Auguste Dupin (Fictitious character), Colonel Pickering, Colonel Sartoris, Daniel Defoe, Devil, Dickory Cronke, Eliza Doolittle, Emily Grierson

Time

1702-1714, 18th century, Jin dai, 17th century, 19th century, Anne, 1702-1714, Charles II, 1660-1685, 1660-1714, 1665, 1689-1702, 1714-1727, 1727, Civil War, 1642-1649, London, 1665, 1600s, 1603-1714, 1648-1715, 1695, 1727-1760, 1912, Antebellum era, Early works to 1800, Fire, 1666, Jindai, Plague, 1665

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Alternative names

  • Charles Johnson
  • Di, Fu
  • (ying) Di, fu
  • Foe De
  • Daniel Daniel Defoe
  • Daniel DeFoe
  • DANIEL DEFOE
  • Defoe Daniel
  • Daniel "Defoe "
  • Daniel DEFOE
  • (ying) Di, fu (Defoe, Daniel
  • Daniel Defoë
  • Daniel (1661?-1731) Defoe
  • Д. Дефо
  • Даниель Дефо

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June 28, 2023 Edited by Сергей Малышев Edited without comment.
June 27, 2023 Edited by tmanarl merge authors
November 16, 2022 Edited by AgentSapphire merge authors
May 3, 2022 Edited by dcapillae remove wrong alternative names
April 1, 2008 Created by an anonymous user initial import