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4 days ago · PREVIEW: PIRACY: DANIEL DEFOE: Conversation with Sean Kingsley, author along with colleague Rex Cowan of PIRATE KING, re the adventures of Henry Avery at the close of the 17th and early 18th Century -- the greatest pirate theft ever recorded, buried treasure -- and secret missions with the genius Daniel Defoe. More tonight. 1684
5 days ago · Summary: Daniel Defoe's interest in crime and criminals in Moll Flanders reflects his fascination with the complexities of human behavior and societal norms. Through the character of Moll, Defoe ...
2 days ago · The film highlights key works and authors that shaped the novel's evolution. It discusses Daniel Defoe's "Robinson Crusoe" and its role in defining the modern novel. It also covers Horace Walpole's "The Castle of Otranto," often cited as the first Gothic novel. Key literary figures such as Charles Dickens and Jane Austen are examined.
3 days ago · Daniel Defoe was living in a rented house on the north side of Church Street by 1709. He moved, possibly by 1714, to the later no. 95 on the south side, which he rebuilt as a handsome three-storeyed house with a central block of three bays, pediment, and porch, flanked by single-bayed wings.
5 days ago · Mueller, Andreas (2014) ‘“One of the Greatest Puzzles in Defoe Bibliography”: John Toland, Daniel Defoe and Ennobling Foreigners’. In: Topographies of the Imagination: New Approaches to Daniel Defoe. AMS Studies in the Eighteenth Century (69). AMS Press, New York. ISBN 9780404648695
3 days ago · Author Daniel Defoe provided one of the few firsthand accounts, describing the grisly Aldgate pit as being “about 40 feet in length and 16 feet broad…dug near 20 feet deep.” Another contemporary noted, “Dead cart loads continually passing to and fro for interring of the dead, whose numbers could not be contained in the ordinary grave grounds.”
4 days ago · 12 Sci-Fi Stories Written Before Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein. The Modern Prometheus is a bit too modern to have solely created science fiction, although it did revolutionize it. By Rob Bricken...
