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From: Monarch Notes
Date: 19630101
Author:Defoe, Daniel

Defoe, Daniel
Monarch Notes
01-01-1963
Life And Career Of Daniel Defoe

Daniel Defoe was born in London in 1660, the son of James Foe, a
tallow-chandler by trade, a dissenter (or non-conformist) to the state
religion-the Church of England. Defoe changed his name in 1743. He received a
fairly good education in an excellent academy run by dissenters, in Newington
Green.

Robinson Crusoe, published in 1719, was hailed by the critics as a
masterpiece of the age. Though sprawling in structure and careless in detail,
it expressed the eighteenth-century epic theme of the power of the average man
to ...

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