Daniel Defoe

Daniel Defoe, who has written the famous novel about Robinson Crusoe and Friday,

was born in 1659. His father was a butcher. The son was only fifteen years old, when

he took part in a dangerous adventure far away from London.

Some men, lead by the duke of Monmouth, who was said to be son of Carl the

second, was raised against the crown.

The young unknown adventurer got away, and he avoided being caught and punished

by turning back to London. He became a grocer here, and he were buying and selling

spanish articles.

He was lucky in a while and he visited Spain. But in 1692 he had to go to jail, because

he hadn't paid what he owed.

Later on, he worked in Tilbury, but again he was unlucky. The prisongates received he

for the second time, because he had a debt at three tousand pounds. He began to write

in 1698- about banks, road construction, school for women etc.

In a way, he is the first political and socially writer of England, and he became editor

of one of the first english newspapers.

Robinson Crusoe, who has made his name immortal, was published in 1719.

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