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Daniel Defoe

1660 to 1731 · English · Literary fiction, Adventure

What sets their writing apart: Study Defoe for the illusion of the real: first-person circumstantial detail, inventories and plain reportage that make invented events read as fact. A model for grounding fiction in concrete, verifiable-sounding specifics.

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