Daniel Defoe clearly relied on his imagination to write his history, but where he invented scenes it was in the spirit of a larger truth Before we even began reading A Journal of the Plague Year ...
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, ...
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 ...
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 ...
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