Daniel Defoe
Daniel Defoe (1660–1731) was a journalist, spy, pamphleteer, and businessman who went bankrupt multiple times, was pilloried for seditious libel, and did not publish his first novel until he was nearly sixty years old. Robinson Crusoe, based partly on the real-life marooning of Alexander Selkirk, became an immediate sensation and has never gone out of print. This author hub collects 2 works in the Canon Compass ranking, led by Robinson Crusoe.
Start with Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe, ranked #69 in the Canon Compass list.
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Defoe's Robinson Crusoe: shipwrecked and alone for 28 years. The novel that launched the castaway genre and the English novel itself.
Daniel Defoe's picaresque classic follows Moll Flanders through marriages, crime, and survival in 18th-century England.