Best Defoe
"The Fortunes and Misfortunes of the Famous Moll Flanders" is a novel by Daniel Defoe first published in 1722. Written as a first-person picaresque narrative, the book recounts the life of its titular protagonist from her birth in Newgate Prison through a succession of marriages, financial struggles...
The True-Born Englishman is a satirical poem published by Daniel Defoe in 1701. It was written to defend King William III from xenophobic attacks by asserting that the English nation was historically composed of immigrant descendants. The poem mocked the hypocrisy of English nativism and became Defo...
Daniel Defoe’s *Roxana* (1724) presents a realistic depiction of eighteenth-century London life through the eyes of Roxana, an English woman navigating poverty and exploitation. The novel's strength lies in its portrayal of a female protagonist employing cunning and often questionable methods to sec...
"The Shortest Way with the Dissenters" is a satirical pamphlet written by Daniel Defoe and published anonymously in 1702. The text mockingly adopts the persona of an extreme High Church Tory, advocating for the outright extermination of Protestant religious dissenters to expose the cruelty of the pr...
1997 adventure film starring Pierce Brosnan as the shipwrecked mariner from Daniel Defoe's classic novel, co-directed by Rod Hardy and George Miller for Miramax.
