Daniel Defoe
Thesis Statement: Daniel Defoe perfected the art of giving his fiction the appearance of truth, thus making his works come alive and appear to be a matter of personal recollection. Daniel Defoe is the founder of the English novel. “ [Defoe]…was one of the germinal minds in political and economical thought, a defender of religious toleration, and an opponent of the evils of human slavery…” (Moore, 7). Defoe reflects his diverse experiences in many countries and in many lifestyles. Besides being a brilliant journalist and novelist, Defoe was a prolific author, producing more than 500 books, pamphlets, and tracts. Defoe was a religious man who stood up for the Christian code of ethics. He spent a great deal of his life trying to get men to act more morally, to abandon prejudices, and to right injustices. Defoe’s most effective writing style was to give as much precise detail so that the reader could not decipher whether the eve
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Approximate Word count = 3904
Approximate Pages = 16 (250 words per page double spaced)
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