
The Man who Wrote Robinson Crusoe: Daniel Dafoe
Not Just the Tudors
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Defoe's Life and Work
One historian describes him as a complete secret service. And i like to know more about how he became a spy, who he was spying for and what he was ove. He was sent by harley during the passage of the act of union through the scottish parliament. Because of defoe's character, which we touched on earlier, he invented various disguises,. Various things he was supposed to be doing. We wouldn't have half as much without that. Millions dead, a higher proportion of civilian casualties than in the second world war. America, britain, russia and china all involved in a conflict that technically remains active to this day. The north koreans and
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