Books: Desperate Daniel Behind Daniel Defoe's prolific writings lay equally extensive debts, says Jonathan Bate

The Sunday Telegraph London | July 27, 1997| | Copyright

The Life and Strange Surprising

Adventures of Daniel Defoe

by Richard West HarperCollins, pounds 2O, 427 pp "HE WROTE books of all kinds, romantic as well as religious; moral as well as immoral. History, politics, poetry; in short all subjects were alike to Daniel - The versatility of the man's genius procured him the admiration of the age in which he lived." So wrote a contributor to the Monthly Review in 1775, commenting on the fact that "the story of the Lewd Roxana" had recently been ascribed to "the famous De Foe". Versatility is a necessity for anyone trying to live by the pen alone, as ...

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