Daniel Defoe, born Daniel Foe, was an English trader, writer, journalist, pamphleteer and spy. He is most famous for his novel Robinson Crusoe, published in 1719, which is claimed to be second only to the Bible in its number of translations
The novel could be a fictionalised account of one man's encounters of the year 1665, in which the Great Plague struck the city of London. The book is told generally chronologically, in spite of the fact that without segments or chapter headings.
