11. Defoe, Daniel, 1661?-1731.

The life and strange surprizing adventures of Robinson Crusoe, of York, mariner : who lived eight and twenty years all alone in an un-inhabited island on the coast of America ... With an account how he was at last as strangely deliver'd by pyrates / written by himself. 3rd edition. (London : Printed for W. Taylor ..., 1719)

The farther adventures of Robinson Crusoe : being the second and last part of his life, and of the strange surprising accounts of his travels round three parts of the globe / Written by himself : To which is added a map of the world, in which is delineated the voyages of Robinson Crusoe. (London : printed for W. Taylor, 1719)

Serious reflections during the life and surprising adventures of Robinson Crusoe, with his vision of the angelick world. / Written by himself. (London : Printed for W. Taylor ..., 1720)

Defoe’s most famous work was Robinson Crusoe. As with Gulliver’s Travels, it is a novel posing as a factual memoir. Here we see this immensely popular work with its two seldom-read sequels. In Part II, Crusoe and Friday return to the island, and Part III, is a series of essays in which Crusoe gives his ideas on such matters as the reality of the spirit world, ending with a vision of Heaven. Unlike Swift, who was a clergyman, Defoe wrote for his living, so was quite willing to write sequels to his most successful work.