The document provides biographical information about Daniel Defoe, an English novelist, journalist, and pamphleteer. Some key details include: - Defoe was born in 1660 in London, England and died in 1731, also in London. - He belonged to the Augustan Age period and wrote over 250 works during his career, including his most famous novels Robinson Crusoe and Moll Flanders. - Defoe worked in various occupations including merchant, spy, pamphleteer, journalist, and novelist. He was politically active and worked with the Tories.

1. PRESENTATION BY,..
HIRAL VAITHA
HARDI VHORA
PRESENTED TO,..
MS.VAIDEHI HARIYANI

2. SUBJECT:-
(1660-1731)

3. # EARLY LIFE:
BORN:- 1660
LONDON
ENGLAND
DIED:- 24TH APRIL,
1731
LONDON
ENGLAND

4. [WHO WAS HARD WORKING AND FAIRLY
PROSPEROUS TALLOW CHANDLER]
#HIS FATHER WAS "JAMES "
# BY HIS MIDDLE 30s DANIEL WAS CALLING
HIMSELF "DEFOE" WHICH WAS HIS
ORIGINAL FAMILY NAME
# HE BELONGS TO THE AUGUSTAN AGE
(1700-1745)

5. NOVELIST PAMPHLETEER JOURNALIST
MERCHANT SPY
SON OF TRADER
HE WAS,...

6. # HIS CONTEMPORARIES WERE,..
• ALEXANDER POPE
• JONATHAN SWIFT
• JOSEPH ADDISON
• ISAAC NEWTON
• SAMUEL PEPYS
• LADY MONTAGUE

7. # HE WROTE 250 LITERARY WORKS DURING HIS
CAREER.
# IT IS SAID THAT HE HAD THE KEENEST SENSE OF WHAT
THE PUBLIC WANTED
# HE WAS ALSO POLITICALLY ACTIVE AND HE WORKED FOR,..
THE
TORIES

8. • DURING HIS LIFETIME HE GAINED FAME
AND NOTORIETY FOR HIS POEMS,
POLITICAL PAMPHLETS AND JOURNALISM.
• HE WAS THE AUTHOR OF THE TOW MOST
FAMOUS LITERARY WORKS

9. 1.
ROBINSON
CRUSOE
# DEFOE'S 5 MAJOR
WORKS
(1719)

10. 2. THE MEMOIRS
A CAVALIER
(1720)

11. 3.
CAPTAIN
SINGLETO
N
( 1720)

12. 4.MOLL
FLANDERS
(1722)

13. 5.
COLONEL
JACK
(JACQUE)
(1722)

14. # ROBINSON CRUSOE #
> FIRST PUBLISHED:- 1719 LONDON
> ALSO KNOW AS:- The Life and Strange Surprizing
Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, of York, Mariner: Who
Lived Eight and Twenty Years, All Alone in an Un-
inhabited Island on the Coast of America, Near the Mouth
of the Great River of Oroonoque; Having Been Cast on
Shore by Shipwreck, Wherein All the Men Perished but
Himself.

15. #MAJOR
CHARACTERS:-
∆ ROBINSON
CRUSOE
∆ FRIDAY
∆ THE PORTUGUESE
CAPTAIN
∆ THE SPAINYARD
∆ XURY
∆ THE WIDOW

16. # THEMES #
π PROGRESS
π SELF RELIANCE
π
CIVILIZATION
π CHRISTIANITY ( Most
important)

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