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Definition of Daniel Defoe
1. Noun. English writer remembered particularly for his novel about Robinson Crusoe (1660-1731).
Lexicographical Neighbors of Daniel Defoe
Literary usage of Daniel Defoe
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern by Charles Dudley Warner, Hamilton Wright Mabie, Lucia Isabella Gilbert Runkle, George H Warner (1902)
"His father was a butcher named Foe, and the evolution of the son's name through
the various forms of D. Foe, De Foe, Defoe, to Daniel Defoe, the present ..."
2. English Literature: An Illustrated Record by Richard Garnett, Edmund Gosse (1903)
"In these multifarious exercises Defoe was as copious as any journalist of our
own time, and for a quarter of Daniel Defoe a ..."
3. The development of the English novel by Wilbur Lucius Cross (1899)
"Daniel Defoe 'Robinson Crusoe' (1719) is the earliest English novel of incident.
... Daniel Defoe."
4. A Guide to the Best Historical Novels and Tales: A Study of English Prose by Jonathan Nield, Charlotte Elizabeth Morgan, Harry Levi (1911)
"... IV THE POPULAR FICTION—JOHN BUNYAN—Daniel Defoe With the popular fiction, we
come to the large mass of cheap,\ artless, and ephemeral narratives, ..."
5. English Literature: Its History and Its Significance for the Life of the by William Joseph Long (1909)
"Daniel Defoe Life. Defoe was the son of a London butcher named Foe, and kept his
family name until he was forty years of age, when he added the aristocratic ..."
6. The English Novel: Being a Short Sketch of Its History from the Earliest by Walter Alexander Raleigh (1895)
"Daniel Defoe. and to be imprisoned during the Queen's pleasure. He was actually
imprisoned for more than a year, during which time his business at Tilbury ..."
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