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1) Crusoe: Daniel Defoe, Robert Knox, and the creation of a myth

Author

Frank, Katherine

Pub. Date

2012.

Edition

First Pegasus cloth edition.

Language

English

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A remarkable literary hybrid-part biography, part detective story-about the enduring figure of Robinson Crusoe Where did Crusoe come from? Frank explores the intertwined lives of two real men, Daniel Defoe and Robert Knox, and the character and book that emerged from their peculiar conjunction. January 1719. A man sits at a table, writing. Nearly sixty, Daniel Defoe is troubled with gout and mired in political controversy and legal threats....