Daniel Defoe

Daniel Defoe (Daniel · Defoe 1660-1731), the British writer, British enlightenment, the founder of realistic novel, is known as "the father of the novel". Her masterpiece the Robinson Crusoe is well known in the world, also be difficult struggle with Robinson of typical model, so he was regarded ...

Daniel Defoe (Daniel · Defoe 1660-1731), the British writer, British enlightenment, the founder of realistic novel, is known as "the father of the novel". Her masterpiece the Robinson Crusoe is well known in the world, also be difficult struggle with Robinson of typical model, so he was regarded as one of the founder of the English novel. Following the "lubin sun Crusoe", he wrote a lot of novels, of the more well-known: "at singleton the captain", "the colonel jack", "the rock charna", "the London the plague record", "a knight's memoirs", etc. But he was not a lifetime with famous scholar in the circle. These literature was born the social status of the high than he. His life destitute, just before he died in order to avoid debt have to hide away from home.