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Daniel Defoe & “Robinson Crusoe”. Triin Eljas XI a. Daniel Defoe. c.1659 – 24 April 1731 born Daniel Foe son of a wealthy London butcher education in a Dissenting College a practical man. the earliest proponents of the novel one of the founders of the English novel - PowerPoint PPT Presentation

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Triin EljasXI a

Daniel Defoe &

“Robinson Crusoe”

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Daniel Defoe

• c.1659 – 24 April 1731 • born Daniel Foe • son of a wealthy London butcher • education in a Dissenting College• a practical man

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the earliest proponents of the novel one of the founders of the English novel a productive and versatile writer:

about five hundred books pamphlets journals

Various topics like politics, crime, religion, marriage, psychology and the supernatural

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Robinson Crusoe• First published in 1719 • considered to be the first novel in English • a fictional autobiography • based on the life of Alexander Selkirk • was inspired by the Latin translations of

Ibn Tufail's Hayy ibn Yaqdhan • Inspired by Robert Knox's work “An

Historical Relation of the Island Ceylon”

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Plot summary Crusoe sets sail in September 1651 his ship is wrecked by a vicious storm he sets out to sea again the ship is taken over by Salé pirates becomes the slave of a Moor befriends with the captain of a

Portuguese ship Crusoe becomes owner of a plantation in

Brazil

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joins an expedition to bring slaves from Africa

shipwrecked in a storm again in September 30, 1659 keeps himself alive discovers native cannibals rescues Friday they are saved by English mutineers leaves the island December 19th, 1686

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