![]() ![]() ![]() With An Account how he was at last as strangely deliver'd by Pyrates. Full Title: The Life and Strange Surprizing Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, of York, Mariner: Who lived Eight and Twenty Years, all alone in an un-inhabited Island on the Coast of America, near the Mouth of the Great River of Oroonoque Having been cast on Shore by Shipwreck, wherein all the Men perished but himself.The specific details of Defoe's death are unclear, but he passed away in London on April 24, 1731. Defoe's realistic novels gained widespread popularity among the newly emerging middle-class readership of England and were foundational in the development of the novel as a literary form. Defoe later turned his writing efforts toward fiction, publishing Robinson Crusoe in 1719, and following it with a number of other novels, including Moll Flanders. ![]() In the early 1700s, he was imprisoned for some of his more controversial political writings. After some time as a merchant, during which he traveled throughout Europe, he became known for writing political pamphlets in the 1680s and 1690s. At this time, England was not a very tolerant place for non-Anglican Protestants-Defoe was unable to attend Cambridge or Oxford because of his religion, for example. Daniel Foe was born into a lower-middle class Presbyterian family in London in 1660 (he later added the French-sounding "De" to his last name to sound higher-class). ![]()
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