Daniel Defoe claims in his preface to the novel fully titled The Fortunate Mistress; or, a History of the Life and Vast Variety of Fortunes of Mademoiselle de Beleau, Afterwards Call’d the Countess de Wintselshiem, in Germany. Being the Person… Read More ›
Arguably the first English novel, Daniel Defoe’s prose romance Robinson Crusoe recounts the fictional adventures of the title character, an ambitious Englishman, through Crusoe’s first-person autobiographical narrative. In the formally titled The Life and Strange Surprising Adventures of Robinson Crusoe,… Read More ›
While Daniel Defoe’s most loved book is still Robinson Crusoe (1719) due to its appeal to young readers, Moll Flanders is considered by critics his most artful. Although it features the same hyperbole used in Robinson Crusoe, with Moll taking… Read More ›
While it purports to be a journal, Daniel Defoe’s novel, A Journal of the Plague Year, is an imaginatively drawn “history” of the Great Plague that seized England from 1664 to 1665. Defoe likely based his narrator, a Whitechapel saddler… Read More ›
Although A Journal of the Plague Year is not Daniel Defoe’s first work of fiction, it offers an interesting perspective from which to examine all of the author’s novels. Purporting to be a journal, one man’s view of a period… Read More ›
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