The inspiration for one of my favourite childhood novels was rescued on #ThisDayInHistory in 1709. Scottish sailor #AlexanderSelkirk spent more than four years living alone on an island in the #SouthPacific. His ordeal inspired #RobinsonCrusoe by #DanielDefoe, published in 1719.

#Leviathan by #ThomasHobbes

The foundational text on the social contract. Hobbes explores the necessity of government to prevent a life that is "brutish and short." 👑🛡️

Read here: https://kensbookinfo.blogspot.com/2018/11/leviathan-by-thomas-hobbes.html

#RobinsonCrusoe by #DanielDefoe

The ultimate survival story. One shipwrecked man, one tropical island, and nearly three decades of ingenuity and solitude. 🏝️🥥🛶

Read here: https://kensebooksonline.blogspot.com/2018/11/the-life-and-adventures-of-robinson.html

🎬 Robinson et compagnie (1991)

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#ukpolitics It was assumed a year or two ago that #uklabour had become a highly disciplined party which had 'the shortest way with dissenters' - to quote #danieldefoe ! This view has been reinforced by books cataloguing the summary treatment of #jeremycorbyn and many others lesser known. However this is not easy to reconcile with the difficulties #uklabour has had in the #houseofcommons more recently and the series of changes to government policy that have ensued.

#RobinsonCrusoe[a] (/ˈkruːsoʊ/ KROO-soh) is an English adventure novel by #DanielDefoe, first published on 25 April 1719. It is often credited as marking the beginning of realistic fiction as a

DEdK (6): Wie England zur alles beherrschenden Weltmacht wurde - Zufälle über Zufälle

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#Geburt #Tod #Kapitalismus #UlrikeHerrmann #Industrialisierung #Lohnkosten #Lohnnebenkosten #TeureMenschen #BilligeMaschinen #TeureEnergie #BilligeEnergie #Kohle #Fossil #FossileEnergie #Pest #Militär #Parlament #Aristokratie #DanielDefoe #Klassismus #Pandemie #Energiekosten #Energieverbrauch #Energieknappheit #Engpass #Entwicklung #Fortschritt

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#danieldefoe made this point more than three centuries back. Sad that it still needs to be made!

A Journal of the Plague Year

Historical novel by Daniel Defoe
First published 1722

Unlike the massive volume of Robinson Crusoe, AJOFPY is a length accessible to the modern reader. It tells of the author’s experiences during the Great Visitation of 1665, when bubonic plague struck the city of London. A grim picture of life during an epidemic and the gamble the right is taking with our lives.

Defoe was a brilliant writer, one of the first people to write proto-novels in the West. The book doesn’t read like a journalist exposé but as a story set in one of the worst of times.

And no need to pay Amazon for the privilege of reading it. https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/376

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Today in Writing History May 21, 1703: The authorities imprisoned writer Daniel Defoe for seditious libel. Defoe was most famous for his novels Robinson Crusoe, published in 1719, and Moll Flanders (1722). However, he also wrote political pamphlets, including The Shortest Way with the Dissenters, which satirized how Tories handled religious dissenters by proposing that they all be exterminated. As a result, the authorities arrested and imprisoned him for seditious libel.

#censorship #prison #writing #author #fiction #freespeech #censorship #satire #danieldefoe #libel #books @bookstadon

Literarischer #5Mai

„… werdet lieber etwas anderes, sogar eine alte Jungfer, der Natur schlimmster Fluch, als euch mit einem Narren zusammenzutun."

#DanielDefoe #Roxana Tod 1731

Literarischer #25April

„Daher ist die Angst vor der Gefahr zehntausendmal furchterregender als die Gefahr selbst.“

#DanielDefoe #RobinsonCrusoe Erstveröffentlichung 1719

Daniel Defoe died on this date in 1731, of a ‘lethargy’, which was probably what we would call today a stroke.

10 things you might not know about the creator of Robinson Crusoe.

https://topicaltens.blogspot.com/2025/04/24-april-daniel-defoe.html

#DanielDefoe #Writers

Der Alfred der Woche!

#robinsoncrusoe #insel #roman #danieldefoe #alfredeneumann #alfredeneuman #mad #madmagazine #alt #retro #sammlung #zeichnung #comics #comicheft #comickritik #kult #comic #humor #witzig

🔴 📖 🇬🇧 **Daniel Defoe’s journeys of the mind**

_“In a succession of savage heroic couplets, Defoe, a staunch supporter of William III, railed against xenophobic opponents of the Dutch-born king. At the same time, he scoffed at the myth of a pure ‘English’ race – one that was composed of Romans, Gauls, Saxons, Danes, Normans, Picts and Scots. ‘Fate jumbled them together, God knows how / Whate’re they were, they’re True-Born English now.’”_

🔗 https://engelsbergideas.com/essays/daniel-defoes-journeys-of-the-mind/.

#UK #UnitedKingdom #Essay #DanielDefoe #Culture #Book #Books #Bookstodon #Literature @bookstodon

#RobinsonCrusoe ist eine US-amerikanische Literaturverfilmung von Luis Buñuel aus dem Jahr 1954. Er basiert auf dem gleichnamigen Roman von #DanielDefoe.
https://alugha.com/videos/e184a451-33d7-11ea-b3de-d5fa9bf5b714

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#DanielDefoe Uno de los padres de la novela inglesa. Entre sus más de 500 obras escritas destaca la célebre "Robinson Crusoe". #мᴅᴊᴘм

At a time of little financial regulation, according to the writer #DanielDefoe, the activities of many eighteenth-century financiers were seen as “founded in #Fraud, born of #Deceit, nourished by Trick, Cheat, #Wheedle, Forgeries, Falsehood”—not totally dissimilar to some twenty-first-century #banks. (d c)

La nave come scrigno di sogni https://www.carmillaonline.com/2024/07/25/la-nave-come-scrigno-di-sogni/ #AntoinedeSaint-Exupéry #RobertLouisStevenson #EmanueleCrialese #L'isoladiMedusa #MichelFoucault #JonathanSwift #MarcoMarmeggi #DanielDefoe #Recensioni #Eterotopie #PaoloLago #razzismo #Medusa #isola

Today in Writing History May 21, 1703: The authorities imprisoned writer Daniel Defoe for seditious libel. Defoe was most famous for his novels Robinson Crusoe, published in 1719, and Moll Flanders (1722). However, he also wrote political pamphlets, including The Shortest Way with the Dissenters, which satirized how Tories handled religious dissenters by proposing that they all be exterminated. As a result, the authorities arrested and imprisoned him for seditious libel.

#censorship #prison #writing #author #fiction #satire #danieldefoe #libel @bookstadon

Literarischer #25April

„So sehen wir nie die wahren Vorteile unseres Zustandes, ehe wir die entgegenstehenden Nachteile erfahren haben; wir lernen den Wert der Dinge erst dann kennen, wenn wir sie verloren haben!“

#DanielDefoe #RobinsonCrusoe 1. Auflage veröffentlicht 1719