Many have ended up in the financial graveyard over recent years. There were more pubs in the early 18th century than now, ...

In 1702, Daniel Defoe a born and bred dissenter, wrote a satirical pamphlet called The Shortest Way with the Dissenters advocating death for papists and nonconformists. Unfortunately for Defoe ...

This book is no longer available to purchase from Cambridge Core Furbank and Owens attempt to disentangle the story of Daniel Defoe’s political career, as journalist, polemicist, political theorist ...

There are few writers whose lives are as intriguing as their fiction, but Daniel Defoe, author of Moll Flanders, Robinson Crusoe and A Journal of the Plague Year, an account of his survival ...

China's Ministry of Education has published an action plan to further promote reading among students across the nation. With ...

Innovative in its structure and approach, Daniel Defoe in Context contains 42 essays by leading scholars illuminating the life, times, and world of Daniel Defoe. Defoe is one of the most important ...

The volcanic island of Robinson Crusoe, 670 kilometers (416 miles) west of Chile's mainland, was renamed in 1966 after the ...

The term ‘bawdy romp’ is synonymous (or should that be sin-nonymous) with Daniel Defoe’s Colchester-born courtesan Moll Flanders. Writer Nick Perry and director Ryan McBryde have teamed up ...

TV director whose powerful Bosnian war drama Shot Through the Heart focused on the personal over the political ...

Throughout his life Daniel Defoe was never far from trouble and died hiding from creditors. Philip Palmer's biographical drama tells the story of a man trying to survive in an extremely hard world.

Imagine a magnificent 700-acre park; an historic pleasure ground four-and-a-half miles in circumference with attractive ...

Fortunately, it wasn’t, and remained in darkness till his children, Rodrigo and Gonzalo Garcia Barcha, decided to reveal it ...