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    Daniel Defoe

    Daniel Defoe was born Daniel Foe in London in 1660. It was perhaps inevitable that Defoe, an outspoken man, would become a political journalist. As a Puritan he believed God had given him a mission to print the truth, that is, to proselytize on religion and politics and, in fact, he became a prolific pamphleteer satirizing the hypocrisies of both Church and State. Defoe admired William III, and his poem The True-Born Englishman (1701) won him the king's friendship. But an ill-timed satire on High Church extremists, The Shortest Way with the Dissenters, published during Queen Anne's reign, resulted in his being pilloried and imprisoned for seditious libel in 1703.  At 59 Defoe turned to fiction, completing The Life and Strange Surprising Adventures of Robinson Crusoe of York, Mariner (1719), partly based on the saga of Alexander Selkirk, a Scottish sailor; Moll Flanders (1722); Colonel Jack (1722); A Journal of the Plague Year (1722); and Roxana, or the Fortunate Mistress (1724).
    Robinson Crusoe
    Robinson Crusoe
    Daniel Defoe
    9780141393407
    $25.00 US
    Hardcover
    Sep 30, 2014
    Penguin Classics
    Grades 9-12 + AP/IB
    Robinson Crusoe
    Robinson Crusoe
    Daniel Defoe
    9780451530776
    $6.95 US
    Mass Market Paperback
    May 06, 2008
    Signet
    Grades 6-12 + AP/IB
    A Journal of the Plague Year
    A Journal of the Plague Year
    Daniel Defoe
    9780140437850
    $11.00 US
    Paperback
    Aug 26, 2003
    Penguin Classics
    Grades 9-12 + AP/IB
    Moll Flanders
    Moll Flanders
    Daniel Defoe
    9780375760105
    $21.00 US
    Paperback
    Jun 11, 2002
    Modern Library
    Grades 9-12 + AP/IB
    Robinson Crusoe
    Robinson Crusoe
    Daniel Defoe
    9780375757327
    $10.00 US
    Paperback
    Jun 12, 2001
    Modern Library
    Grades 9-12 + AP/IB

    Books

    Robinson Crusoe
    Robinson Crusoe
    Daniel Defoe
    9780141393407
    $25.00 US
    Hardcover
    Sep 30, 2014
    Penguin Classics
    Grades 9-12 + AP/IB
    Robinson Crusoe
    Robinson Crusoe
    Daniel Defoe
    9780451530776
    $6.95 US
    Mass Market Paperback
    May 06, 2008
    Signet
    Grades 6-12 + AP/IB
    A Journal of the Plague Year
    A Journal of the Plague Year
    Daniel Defoe
    9780140437850
    $11.00 US
    Paperback
    Aug 26, 2003
    Penguin Classics
    Grades 9-12 + AP/IB
    Moll Flanders
    Moll Flanders
    Daniel Defoe
    9780375760105
    $21.00 US
    Paperback
    Jun 11, 2002
    Modern Library
    Grades 9-12 + AP/IB
    Robinson Crusoe
    Robinson Crusoe
    Daniel Defoe
    9780375757327
    $10.00 US
    Paperback
    Jun 12, 2001
    Modern Library
    Grades 9-12 + AP/IB

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