Robinson Crusoe and A Journal of the Plague Year
By Daniel Defoe
1930
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If ever a book could be considered imperishable, it is Robinson Crusoe. Defoe's masterpiece has maintained, generation after generation, its special place among the world's classics. As an adventure story, as a parable of man's indomitable spirit and resourcefulness, it is as alive and exciting as it was when first published in 1719. It comes into the Modern Library with A Journal of the Plague Year, that feat of the imagination which reads as if it were a documented history. Both are brilliantly introduced by America's foremost authority on eighteenth-century England, Louis Kronenberger.
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Daniel Defoe
Author · 33 books
Daniel Defoe (1659/1661 [?] - 1731) was an English writer, journalist, and spy, who gained enduring fame for his novel The life and strange surprizing adventures of Robinson Crusoe: of York, mariner (1719). Defoe is notable for being one of the earliest practitioners of the novel and helped popularize the genre in Britain. In some texts he is even referred to as one of the founders, if not the founder, of the English novel. A prolific and versatile writer, he wrote more than five hundred books, pamphlets, and journals on various topics (including politics, crime, religion, marriage, psychology and the supernatural). He was also a pioneer of economic journalism.
