Years ago, in these pages, I confessed that I have read Daniel Defoe’s 1719 fictional tale, “The Adventures of Robinson Crusoe,” multiple times, as well as listened to the audio version. Crusoe’s ...

Talk about writing for money! In 1692, a businessman named Daniel Defoe was forced into bankruptcy by a debt of £17,000 — a sum approaching US$4 million in today’s money. Defoe had succumbed to bad ...

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 ...

Before Daniel Defoe (1660-1731) wrote Robinson Crusoe, Moll Flanders, A Journal of the Plague Year and other great literary works, he tried his hand at business and investing. There isn’t much to ...

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Mark Lawson presents a documentary exploring the far-reaching influence of Daniel Defoe. Bookshops have separate sections for Fiction, Non-Fiction, Autobiography, Travel Writing, Journalism, Economics ...

David Roberts is the co-editor of the World Classics edition of Daniel Defoe’s A Journal of the Plague Year with Louis Landa. In 1722, Daniel Defoe pulled off one of the great literary hoaxes of all ...

Sign up for the daily CJR newsletter. I first read Daniel Defoe’s A Journal of the Plague Year on a train from Boston to New York. That’s the truth. It’s not a ...

One man who gave a vivid account of the place and the people was Daniel Defoe who headed our way after writing Robinson Crusoe. In his famous book, the hero’s first shipwreck was at Winterton-on-Sea ...

More than 300 years ago London was in the grip of the Great Plague. Robinson Crusoe writer Daniel Defoe's account about this time - A Journal of the Plague Year - was an early example of faction, ...