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English novelist, pamphleteer and journalist, author of "Robinson Crusoe" (1719), a story of a man shipwrecked alone on an island. Along with Samuel Richardson, Defoe is considered the founder of the English novel. Before his time stories were usually written as long poems or dramas. He produced some 200 works of non-fiction prose and close to 2,000 short essays in periodical publications. He is best known for such classic stories as "Robinson Crusoe", "Moll Flanders" and "Journal of the Plague Year". |