daniel defoe

     

He pioneered the novel with "Robinson Crusoe" & the ghost story with "The Apparition of One Mrs. Veal"

Trivia about daniel defoe

  • Curl up on a desert island with his "Political History of the Devil" or "Robinson Crusoe"
  • Grimace is used as a noun meaning pretense or sham in his novel "Moll Flanders"
  • You might have to be on a desert island before you get around to his 1722 novel "Colonel Jack"
  • While Stradivari was making violins, this author was fiddling with "Robinson Crusoe"
  • Young Ben Franklin couldn't wait for each new book by this "Robinson Crusoe" author
  • Jonathan Swift called this Crusoe creator "So...dogmatical a rogue, that there is no enduring him"
  • He created Mrs. Flanders, also known as Moll
  • One of his literary works gave us the term "Man Friday"
  • A Robinsonade, an adventure that's often about a marooned person, is named for a character created by this author
  • After offending both sides in a religious dispute, this "Moll Flanders" author was sentenced to the pillory
  • One of this "Robinson Crusoe" author's final works was "The Political History of the Devil"
  • 1720's "The Adventures of Captain Singleton" was his next novel after "Robinson Crusoe"
  • In 1697 this "Robinson Crusoe" author wrote "An Essay Upon Projects", in which he recommended an income tax
  • "For never man had a more faithful, loving, sincere servant, than Friday was to me"
  • Published in 1724, his last major work of fiction was "Roxana", about a courtesan, not a castaway
  • "A Journal of the Plague Year"by D.D.

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