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Daniel Defoe
FAMOUS PEOPLE
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Daniel Defoe ( 1660 - 1731)
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Daniel Defoe was a famous English writer of the eighteenth century.
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Daniel travelled much and wrote many books. One day he met a sailor who told him his story.
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Alexander Selkirk worked on a ship as a sailor. The captain was so angry with him that he left him on a desert island. Alexander lived there
for more than four years.
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When Defoe was sixty years old, he decided to write a novel about the life of that sailor.
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His character Robinson Crusoe managed to live using only the things he had on the island. He met a black man whom he
called Friday.
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Friday became his friend.
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When the novel was published it made Defoe famous. He wrote many other books, but for “Robinson Crusoe”
he is called “the father of English prose”.
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