Years ago, in these pages, I confessed that I have read Daniel Defoe’s 1719 fictional tale, “The Adventures of Robinson Crusoe,” multiple times, as well as listened to the audio version. Crusoe’s ...

Mark Lawson presents a documentary exploring the far-reaching influence of Daniel Defoe. Bookshops have separate sections for Fiction, Non-Fiction, Autobiography, Travel Writing, Journalism, Economics ...

TimesMachine is an exclusive benefit for home delivery and digital subscribers. About the Archive This is a digitized version of an article from The Times’s print archive, before the start of online ...

While authors such as Tim Severin have made the case for various models for Daniel Defoe’s Robinson Crusoe, Frank’s well-researched if overly detailed account makes the case that his primary model was ...

This summer, BBC Radio 4 are putting a spotlight on Daniel Defoe, broadcasting three dramas and a documentary about the great 18th century writer, chancer, pamphleteer, hack, part-time spy, political ...

I read "Robinson Crusoe" many times over the years before learning that the book has a longer name. The full title of Daniel Defoe's novel, first published in 1719, is "The Life and Strange Surprising ...

David Roberts is the co-editor of the World Classics edition of Daniel Defoe’s A Journal of the Plague Year with Louis Landa. In 1722, Daniel Defoe pulled off one of the great literary hoaxes of all ...