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Works of Daniel Defoe: Study Guide

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

Defoe, Daniel
Monarch Notes
01-01-1963
Study Guide

Critical Commentary

The middle-class reading public in eighteenth-century England devoured
with great relish travel, escape, and adventure books. Defoe's library, for
example, contained all the important books of travel, such as Richard
Hakluyt's, Voyages; Dampier's, New Voyage Around the World; Robert Knox's,
Historical Relation of Ceylon; and Captain Woodes Roger's, Cruising Voyage
Around the World, which included an account of Alexander Selkirk. The latter
was a Scottish sailor who later published an account of his life on the
Pacific island ...

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