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  1. “To be born is to be wrecked on an island.”

    From the true-life adventure of Alexander Selkirk, through Daniel Defoe, RM Ballantyne, & Robert Louis Stevenson, John Pielmeier – author of HOOK’S TALE – follows a chain of real & fictional islands to JM Barrie’s Neverland…

    3/10

    lithub.com/visiting-the-actual

    #Scottish #literature #JMBarrie #kidlit #ChildrensLiterature #PeterPan #RobertLouisStevenson #DanielDefoe #RobinsonCrusoe

  2. A Journal of the Plague Year

    Historical novel by Daniel Defoe
    First published 1722

    Unlike the massive volume of Robinson Crusoe, AJOFPY is a length accessible to the modern reader. It tells of the author’s experiences during the Great Visitation of 1665, when bubonic plague struck the city of London. A grim picture of life during an epidemic and the gamble the right is taking with our lives.

    Defoe was a brilliant writer, one of the first people to write proto-novels in the West. The book doesn’t read like a journalist exposé but as a story set in one of the worst of times.

    And no need to pay Amazon for the privilege of reading it. gutenberg.org/ebooks/376

    #ScribesAndMakers 07/26
    #Review #Books #HistoricalNovel #Pandemic #DanielDefoe #AJournalOfThePlagueYear
    #NMSAM #NMPrompts

  3. Daniel Defoe died on this date in 1731, of a ‘lethargy’, which was probably what we would call today a stroke.

    10 things you might not know about the creator of Robinson Crusoe.

    topicaltens.blogspot.com/2025/

    #DanielDefoe #Writers

  4. 🔴 📖 🇬🇧 **Daniel Defoe’s journeys of the mind**

    _“In a succession of savage heroic couplets, Defoe, a staunch supporter of William III, railed against xenophobic opponents of the Dutch-born king. At the same time, he scoffed at the myth of a pure ‘English’ race – one that was composed of Romans, Gauls, Saxons, Danes, Normans, Picts and Scots. ‘Fate jumbled them together, God knows how / Whate’re they were, they’re True-Born English now.’”_

    🔗 engelsbergideas.com/essays/dan.

    #UK #UnitedKingdom #Essay #DanielDefoe #Culture #Book #Books #Bookstodon #Literature @bookstodon

  5. Zum #robinsoncrusoe-Tag präsentieren wir eine wunderschöne, dreibändige Ausgabe aus dem Jahre 1895, die sich in unserem Beständen befindet #ulbtirol #DanielDefoe