Daniel Defoe

Daniel Defoe was an English writer whose biographical details are limited in publicly available sources. This site holds fifteen of his works, spanning novels and narrative works of a documentary kind. His best-known work, Robinson Crusoe, centers on survival on a deserted island and portrays individual resilience and practicality in extreme circumstances, and is often categorized under inspirational growth and foreign literature. Another major work, Moll Flanders, unfolds through a female first-person narrator, with a twisting plot and plain yet detailed language. A Journal of the Plague Year uses a fictional narrator to record social life in London during the plague, combining a documentary feel with literary imagination. Defoe's writing often draws on ordinary people's experiences, with concrete narration and brisk pacing, and has had a lasting influence on the development of the English novel.