Description
Author: Daniel Defoe
Publisher: Modern Library
Published: 06/12/2001
Pages: 320
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.54lbs
Size: 8.03h x 5.21w x 0.71d
ISBN13: 9780375757327
ISBN10: 0375757325
BISAC Categories:
- Fiction | Classics
- Fiction | Action & Adventure
- Fiction | Literary
About the Author
Daniel Defoe was born Daniel Foe in London in 1660. It was perhaps, ineveitable that Defoe, an outspoken man, would become a political journalist. As a Puritan he believed God had given him a mission to print the truth, that is, to proselytize on religion and politics, and in fact, he became a prolific pamphleteer satirizing the hypocrisies of both Church and State. Defoe admired William III, and his poem The True-Born Englishman (1701) won him the King's friendship. But an ill-timed satire on High Church extremists, The Shortest Way with the Dissenters, published during Queen Anne's reign, resulted in his being pilloried and imprisoned for seditious libel in 1703.