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 ...

Daniel Defoe, author of the first and best-known survival novel in the English language, was a survivor himself. Born around 1660, he lived through 1665's Great Plague of London, in which 100,000 ...

In 1722, Daniel Defoe pulled off one of the great literary hoaxes of all time. A Journal of the Plague Year, he called his latest book. The title page promises “observations of the most remarkable ...

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 ...

Daniel Defoe, a prolific English novelist and journalist, is celebrated for his early contributions to the novel form. His works, like "Robinson Crusoe," showcase keen observation of human nature and ...

The busy beaches of South Shields on a sunny day are a far cry from the desolate sands on which Robinson Crusoe found himself stranded in the most famous episode of Daniel Defoe’s 1719 novel. Did you ...

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 ...