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Biography of Daniel Defoe

Daniel Defoe was a writer growing up in a family of five. He was born in 1660 as the youngest of his two siblings Alice and James. He attended Charles Morton’s Dissenting Academy because of the religion of his father but instead of taking a job in the ministry, he decided that he would become a merchant. He traded mostly wine, woolen goods, tobacco and wood but on the side he was also a writer. Defoe wrote many essays on banking and business naming it An Essay Upon Projects (1697).

Defoe also wrote “Dickory Cronke (1719) was followed by The Life of Captain Singleton (1720) and Memoirs of a Cavalier (1720). Defoe's next major work is Moll Flanders (1722), sub-titled Who was Born in Newgate, and during a Life of continu'd Variety for Threescore Years, besides her Childhood, was Twelve Year a Whore, five times a Wife (whereof once to her own Brother), Twelve Year a Thief, Eight Year a Transported Felon in Virginia, at last grew Rich, liv'd Honest, and dies a Penitent. Written from her own Memorandums . . . Colonel Jack (1722) was published the same year as Defoe's convincing journalistic History of the Plague in London (1722). Other titles by Defoe include Roxana: The Fortunate Mistress (1724), The Complete English Tradesman (1726), and Military Memoirs of Capt. George Carleton(1728).” (The literature network)

In the year 1684 he married a girl named Marry Tuffley and had eight children. Defoe was in a large strain of debt and died in April of 1731 from a stroke. His Wife Marry died a year later.

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Other books by Daniel Defoe:

Atlantis Major

Captain Singleton

Farther Adventures of Robinson Crusoe

Fortunes and Misfortunes of the Famous Moll Flanders

A Journal of the Plague Year

The King of Pirates

The Life of Captain Singleton

The Life and Adventures of Robinson Crusoe

Memoirs of a Cavalier

Moll Flanders

The Novels of Daniel Defoe

The Pirate Gow

Robinson Crusoe

Roxana

The Storm

A Tour of the Whole Island of Great Britain

The True-Born Englishmen and Other Writings

A Visitation of the Plague


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Some Reviews on the novel, Robinson Crusoe

Many book reviews and opinions of Robinson Crusoe are four or five star.  This is because it’s a very great novel and each reader talks about the adventure and mystery of being stranded on a deserted island.
On the Movie Robinson Crusoe, filmed by Rod Hardy and George Miller, The ratings were not as good. Some reviews like on (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0117496/) only gave the film a 5.9 out of 10 and some other webpages only gave it a 3 out of 5. In my personal opinion, the movie was fantastic and the book although not as fast moving, is still a great novel on survival.


Academic Essays


http://www.bookrags.com/essay-2004/9/24/135830/988


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Cultural, historical, and/or geographical context

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http://www.smithsonianmag.com/history-archaeology/crusoe.html





Characteristics, themes, motifs of other novels

Defoe wrote a lot about the plague and what it affected in the years that it would hit.  He also wrote about outcasts or people that were a bit different then the average person of that time period. Defoe seemed to rewrite stories about certain Characters that he had made. This could've been because they were the books that made him the most money or just becuase he liked to write about the adventures of the Characters.



http://www.sparknotes.com/lit/crusoe/themes.html


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