Moll Flanders

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  Daniel Defoe was born Daniel Foe in London in 1660 It was perhaps inevitable that Defoe, an oııtspoken man, would become a political joumalist. As a Puritan he believed God had given him a mission to print the truth, that is, to proselytize on religion and politics and, in fact, he became a prolific pamphleteer satirizing the hypocrisies of both Church and State. Defoe admired William III, and his poem The Tnıe-Born Englishman (1701) on him the king's friendship. Bütan ill-timed satire on High Church extremists, The Shortest Way with the Dissenters, published during Qııeen Anne's reign, resulted in his being pilloried and imprisoned forseditious libel in 1703 At 59 Defoe turned to fiction, completing The Life and Strange Surprising Adventures of Robinson Crusoe of York, Mariner (1719), partly based on the sağa ofAlexander Selkirk, a Scottish sailor; MollFlanders (1722); ColonelJack (1722); A Journal of the Plague Year (1722); and Roxana, or the Fortunate Mistress (1724