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Defoe

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De·foe  (d-f), Daniel 1660-1731.
British writer whose most famous novel, Robinson Crusoe (1719), was inspired by the exploits of a Scottish sailor and castaway, Alexander Selkirk. He also wrote Moll Flanders and A Journal of the Plague Year (both 1722).
Defoe [dɪˈfəʊ]
n
(Biographies / Defoe, Daniel (?1660-1731) M, English, WRITING: novelist, WRITING: journalist, CRIME AND POLICING: spymaster, WRITING: pamphleteer) Daniel. ?1660-1731, English novelist, journalist, spymaster, and pamphleteer, noted particularly for his novel Robinson Crusoe (1719). His other novels include Moll Flanders (1722) and A Journal of the Plague Year (1722)
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Noun1.DefoeDefoe - English writer remembered particularly for his novel about Robinson Crusoe (1660-1731)
Daniel Defoe


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Defoe was a journalist first, though by nature ever a story-teller.
English Literature For Boys And Girls by Marshall, H.E. View in context
Ambrose would have suggested Defoe, Maupassant, or some spacious chronicle of family life, Rachel chose modern books, books in shiny yellow covers, books with a great deal of gilding on the back, which were tokens in her aunt's eyes of harsh wrangling and disputes about facts which had no such importance as the moderns claimed for them.
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