Daniel Defoe

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Daniel Defoe ( 1660 - 1731)

Daniel Defoe was a famous English writer of the eighteenth century.

Daniel travelled much and wrote many books. One day he met a sailor who told him his story.

Alexander Selkirk worked on a ship as a sailor. The captain was so angry with him that he left him on a desert island. Alexander lived there

for more than four years.

When Defoe was sixty years old, he decided to write a novel about the life of that sailor.

His character Robinson Crusoe managed to live using only the things he had on the island. He met a black man whom he

called Friday.

Friday became his friend.

When the novel was published it made Defoe famous. He wrote many other books, but for “Robinson Crusoe”

he is called “the father of English prose”.

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