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Author Backscheider, Paula R.

Title Daniel Defoe : his life / Paula R. Backscheider
Published Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, [1989]
©1989

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Description xv, 671 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Contents Fire and plague -- Merchant-rebel -- Bankrupt -- Recovery -- Fugitive -- Prison -- Four hundred thousand words -- The literary effort of a lifetime -- New life -- A terrible people -- Political maelstrom -- The goliath of the party -- A team of writers -- Six hundred thousand words -- A discontented people -- A penetrating eye -- The whole world in motion -- Projects and designs -- Changes and disasters -- Epilogue : bred in the bone
Analysis English fiction
English fiction
Notes Includes index
Bibliography Bibliography: pages 617-654
Notes Also issued online
Subject Defoe, Daniel, 1661?-1731.
Authors, English -- 18th century -- Biography.
Journalists -- Great Britain -- Biography.
Genre/Form Biographies.
LC no. 88026752
ISBN 0801837855 (alk. paper)
0801845122