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Daniel Defoe

✍ Scribed by William Minto


Publisher
Duke Classics
Year
2012
Tongue
English
Category
Library

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✦ Synopsis


Learn more about the life and works of the brilliant eighteenth-century spy, novelist, and rabble-rouser Daniel Defoe in this penetrating biography penned by William Minto. Minto, a Scottish professor of logic, offers a keenly insightful take on the influences and events that shaped Defoe's contributions to journalism and literature, which included such works as Robinson Crusoe and Moll Flanders.

✦ Subjects


Biography & Autobiography; Nonfiction; BIO000000


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