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Biography on daniel defoe.
Title: Biography on daniel defoe.
Category: Literature / Biographies
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Biography on daniel defoe.
Daniel Defoe
Even though Daniel Defoe, a restoration author, is usually remembered for "Robinson Crusoe", he wrote over five hundred different works throughout his life. Defoe, an English novelist, journalist, and pamphleteer, is considered to be the founder of the English novel. According to Liukkonen "he produced some 200 works of nonfiction prose in addition to close to 2,000 short essays in periodical publications, several of which he also edited" (Kirjasto)
Daniel Defoe was born the son of James, a butcher, and Alice Foe. His family were …showed first 85 words of 551 total…
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…showed last 85 words of 551 total…reality to a theme with large mythic implications" (Kirjasto). The story "Robinson Crusoe" was based "partly on the memoirs of voyagers and castaways, such as Alexander Selkirk, who spent on his island four years and four months" (Kirjasto).
Works Cited
Liukkonen, Petri. "Daniel Defoe" http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/defoe.htm 2003
MacLeod, Laura. "Daniel 'The True-Born Englishman' Defoe" http://www.incompetech.com/authors/defoe/ 1996-1997
Columbia Electronic Encyclopedia, The. "Daniel Defoe, English Literature, 1500-1799, Biographies" http://reference.allrefer.com/encyclopedia/D/Defoe.html 2003
Encyclopedia Britannica. "Defoe, Daniel" 2000
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