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    The Short Stories of Daniel Defoe: One of the leading people that helped popularize fictional writing in England
    The Short Stories of Daniel Defoe: One of the leading people that helped popularize fictional writing in England
    The Short Stories of Daniel Defoe: One of the leading people that helped popularize fictional writing in England
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    The Short Stories of Daniel Defoe: One of the leading people that helped popularize fictional writing in England

    Written by Daniel Defoe

    Narrated by Richard Mitchley and Ghizela Rowe

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    Defoe is most well known for his classic novels Robinson Crusoe and Moll Flanders. Born around 1659 he was also a journalist, a pamphleteer, a businessman, a spy - and a writer of short stories. His life was long and colourful covering all manner of fields and usually closely followed by political intrigue or unpaid bills. But the breath of his works are still highly regarded indeed his Journal Of A Plague Year is an important account of that disastrous year for England. His novels of course are regularly used as the basis of films and TV shows as well lauded for their contribution to the birth of novels as an art form. In these short stories Defoe succinctly emblazons his style upon subjects as diverse as apparitions, pirates and politics. This volume is brought to your ears by Richard Mitchley and Ghizela Rowe.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherThe Copyright Group
    Release dateJan 1, 2014
    ISBN9781780000275
    The Short Stories of Daniel Defoe: One of the leading people that helped popularize fictional writing in England
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    Daniel Defoe

    Daniel Defoe was born at the beginning of a period of history known as the English Restoration, so-named because it was when King Charles II restored the monarchy to England following the English Civil War and the brief dictatorship of Oliver Cromwell. Defoe’s contemporaries included Isaac Newton and Samuel Pepys.

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