Defoe

or De Foe

[ dih-foh ]

noun

1. Daniel 1659?–1731, English novelist and political journalist.

Defoe

/ dɪˈfəʊ /

noun

1. DefoeDaniel?16601731MEnglishWRITING: novelistWRITING: journalistCRIME AND POLICING: spymasterWRITING: 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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As late as the 18th century, writers such as Daniel Defoe were still arguing that plague was divine punishment.

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It is Daniel Defoe in “The Shortest Way With Dissenters” speaking of killing members of a religious sect.

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He acknowledged various literary forebears, from Ballantyne to Defoe, in the creation of what became Treasure Island.

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Daniel Defoe alone could have so handled the subject as to make delightful so dull and so sad a tale.

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There is a charm in Defoe's works that one hardly finds, excepting in the Pilgrim's Progress.

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Spanish in its origin, it developed into a school in which Defoe and Thackeray distinguished themselves.

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Defoe again rode out, met the army of William at Henley-on-Thames, and joined its second line as a volunteer.

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Defoe in this book ran again and again into sound suggestions that first came to be realised long after he was dead.

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