Daniel Defoe wrote early English prose fiction and journalism, often presenting invented stories with the factual tone of memoir, report or travel account. Robinson Crusoe follows a castaway who spends years on an island building shelter, growing food and organising his survival before meeting Friday. Moll Flanders is narrated by a woman recounting marriages, crime, poverty and transportation across a long, unstable life, while A Journal of the Plague Year reconstructs the 1665 London plague through documentary-style observation. Defoe's prose is plain, detailed and practical, with money, work, trade and survival repeatedly foregrounded. His work fits early novels, adventure fiction and pseudo-documentary narrative, though modern readers should expect colonial assumptions typical of his period. Read more Less
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