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Daniel Defoe

Born

London, The United Kingdom

Died

April 24, 1731

Genre

Fiction, Politics, Nonfiction

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Daniel Defoe (1659/1661 [?] - 1731) was an English writer, journalist, and spy, who gained enduring fame for his novel, Robinson Crusoe. Defoe is notable for being one of the earliest practitioners of the novel and helped popularize the genre in Britain. In some texts he is even referred to as one of the founders, if not the founder, of the English novel. A prolific and versatile writer, he wrote more than five hundred books, pamphlets, and journals on various topics (including politics, crime, religion, marriage, psychology and the supernatural). He was also a pioneer of economic journalism.

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Average rating: 3.63 · 227,633 ratings · 6,067 reviews · 1,103 distinct works · Similar authors

	Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe, Gerald McCann (Illustrator), Virginia Woolf (Introduction) 3.66 avg rating — 181,333 ratings — published 1719 — 1891 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Moll Flanders 3.48 avg rating — 30,981 ratings — published 1721 — 539 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Further Adventures Of Robinson Crusoe 3.90 avg rating — 4,208 ratings — published 1719 — 86 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	A Journal of the Plague Year by Daniel Defoe, Cynthia Sundberg Wall (Editor) 3.54 avg rating — 3,769 ratings — published 1722 — 223 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Roxana by Daniel Defoe, John Mullan (Editor) 3.44 avg rating — 2,878 ratings — published 1724 — 101 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Captain Singleton 3.38 avg rating — 217 ratings — published 1720 — 112 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The King of Pirates by Daniel Defoe, Peter Ackroyd (Foreword) 3.21 avg rating — 71 ratings — published 1719 — 37 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Colonel Jack 3.09 avg rating — 65 ratings — published 1722 — 31 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	A Tour Through the Whole Island of Great Britain by Daniel Defoe, Pat Rodgers (Annotations) 3.74 avg rating — 47 ratings — published 1724 — 26 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The History of the Devil As Well Ancient as Modern: In Two Parts 3.68 avg rating — 65 ratings — published 1726 — 47 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Robinson Crusoe (3 books)
by Daniel Defoe
3.66 avg rating — 185,560 ratings

Quotes by Daniel Defoe

“It is never too late to be wise.”
― Daniel Defoe, Robinson Crusoe

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“The soul is placed in the body like a rough diamond, and must be polished, or the luster of it will never appear.”
― Daniel Defoe

tags: diamond, soul

1822 likes

“Expect nothing and you'll always be surprised”
― Daniel Defoe

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Polls

October 2015 Old School Classic Poll

1878, The Return of the Native by Thomas Hardy, 448 pages

31 votes, 21.1%

1871, Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There by Lewis Carroll, 228 pages

26 votes, 17.7%

1852, Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe, 432 pages

17 votes, 11.6%

1880, Heidi by Johanna Spyri, 352 pages

17 votes, 11.6%

1877, Black Beauty by Anna Sewell, 245 pages

16 votes, 10.9%

1721, Moll Flanders by Daniel Defoe, 339 pages

12 votes, 8.2%

1893, Pudd'nhead Wilson by Mark Twain, 160 pages

12 votes, 8.2%

1880, The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky, 796 pages

10 votes, 6.8%

1874, Ninety-Three by Victor Hugo, 352 pages

4 votes, 2.7%

1844, Barry Lyndon by William Makepeace Thackeray, 220 pages

2 votes, 1.4%

147 total votes

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