Daniel Defoe

Biographic Data

ID416111
NAMEDaniel Defoe
GIVEN NAMESDaniel
FAMILY NAMEDefoe
SIGNATUREDEFOE D
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS7
TOTAL CITATIONS21
WORKS AS AUTHOR7
WORKS AS EDITOR0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1928
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2008
H-INDEX1

  • Robinson Crusoe

    Daniel Defoe, James Kelly et al.BOOKRobinson Crusoe2008

    ‘I made him know his Name should be Friday, which was the Day I sav'd his Life...I likewise taught him to say Master’ Robinson Crusoe's seafaring adventures are abruptly ended when he is shipwrecked, the solitary survivor on a deserted island. He gradually creates a life for himself, building a house, cultivating the land, and making a companion from the native whose life he saves. Daniel Defoe's enthralling story-telling and imaginatively detail…

  • A Journal of the Plague Year (Revisited Classics)

    Open AccessDaniel DefoeARTICLEHygeia - Revista Brasileira de…2008

    If we inquire further into the secret of Defoe's success in the "History of the Plague," we shall find that it consists largely in his vision, or power of seeing clearly and accurately what he describes, before he attempts to put this description on paper. As Defoe was but four years old at the time of the Great Plague, his personal recollection of its effects must have been of the dimmest; but during the years of childhood (the most imaginative …

  • The True-born Englishman

    Open AccessDaniel DefoeARTICLECritical Perspectives on Accounting1995

  • Defoe's Perpetual Seekers

    Virginia Ogden Birdsall, Daniel DefoeBOOKDefoe's perpetual seekers1985

    This study contends that the main characters in Defoe's six major fictions represent a more profound anxiety and cynicism regarding the human condition than has been generally recognized. From Robinson Crusoe to Roxana--each is engaged in a lonely and futile search for identity and significance, and each pursues that goal with ruthless singlemindedness

  • The Versatile Defoe

    David Blewett, Laura Ann Curtis et al.ARTICLEEighteenth-Century Studies1982

  • The Letters of Daniel Defoe

    Daniel Defoe, first earl of Oxford Mortimer Robert Harley et al.BOOKLetters of Daniel Defoe1956

  • A Tour Thro' the Whole Island of Great Britain

    Daniel DefoeARTICLEGeographical Journal1928Cited by: 21

    Part I Volume 1 A Tour thro' the Whole Island of Great Britain, Vol. I (1724) Volume 2 A Tour thro' the Whole Island of Great Britain, Vol. II (1725) Volume 3 A Tour thro' the Whole Island of Great Britain, Vol. III (1726) Volume 4 A General History of Discoveries and Improvements (1725-6) An Essay upon Literature (1726