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The sun was like a great visiting presence that stimulated and took its due from all animal energy. When it flung wide its cloak and stepped down over the edge of the fields at evening, it left behind it a spent and exhausted world.
Daniel Defoe
Born: 1660
Died: April 24, 1731 (aged 71)
Bio: Daniel Defoe, born Daniel Foe, was an English trader, writer, journalist, pamphleteer, and spy, most famous for his novel Robinson Crusoe.
Known for:
- Robinson Crusoe (1719)
- Moll Flanders (1722)
- A Journal of the Plague Year (1722)
- The Farther Adventures of Robinson Crusoe (1719)
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