Daniel Defoe
Defoe is one of the founding fathers of the English novel, combining journalistic realism with compelling narrative in Robinson Crusoe and Moll Flanders. His prose influenced virtually every subsequent novelist who valued authenticity of detail.
Works
- Robinson CrusoeNovel of solitary castaway building civilization on uninhabited island through resourcefulness
- Moll FlandersNovel of woman's survival through crime and prostitution in eighteenth-century England
- A Journal of the Plague YearHistorical narrative of the plague outbreak in London presented as documentary report
- RoxanaNovel of ambitious woman rising to wealth and power through cunning and seduction
- Colonel JackNovel following a foundling's journey from crime to redemption across colonial colonies