Before Daniel Defoe (1660-1731) wrote Robinson Crusoe, Moll Flanders, A Journal of the Plague Year and other great literary works, he tried his hand at business and investing. There isn’t much to ...
From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...
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 ...
Daniel Defoe, author of the first and best-known survival novel in the English language, was a survivor himself. Born around 1660, he lived through 1665's Great Plague of London, in which 100,000 ...
Defoe’s novel paints an impressive picture of Russia. The writer himself had never been to this part of the world, and he based the protagonist’s adventures on the true tales of travelers – Notes on ...
The busy beaches of South Shields on a sunny day are a far cry from the desolate sands on which Robinson Crusoe found himself stranded in the most famous episode of Daniel Defoe’s 1719 novel. Did you ...
In the normal course of events news of the sale of such a property would not attract the attention of the world’s media. The clue to the wider interest in the sale lies in the blue plaque to the left ...
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