(026721) Novak, Maximilian E. Daniel Defoe, Master Of
Fictions: His Life And Ideas. New York: Oxford Univ. Press, 2001. 1st
Edition. Softcover. Thick 8vo. 756 pages. Fine in Fine DJ. B&W
Illustrations. Defoe (1616-1731) was a British novelist, pamphleteer, and
journalist. He achieved literary immortality with the novel Robinson Crusoe
(1719) , which drew partly on memoirs of voyagers and castaways. He is also
remembered for the vivid, picaresque Moll Flanders (1722) , the nonfictional
Journal of the Plague Year (1722) , on the Great Plague in London in 1664–65,
and Roxana (1724) , a prototype of the modern novel. ISBN: 0199261547 (Defoe,
Daniel, Authors)
