Question

Which of the following was Daniel Defoe's contribution to English literature?

• A. The True-Born Englishman
• B. Robinson Crusoe
• C. The Shortest Way with the Dissenters
• D. All of the above

Answer 1

The correct option is D All of the above

English author Daniel Defoe was at times a trader, political activist, criminal, spy and writer, and is considered to be one of England s first journalists. A prolific writer, Defoe is known to have used at least 198 pen names over the course of a career in which he produced more than five hundred written works. Defoe is best-known for his novels detailing the adventures of the castaway Robinson Crusoe, which helped establish and popularize the novel in eighteenth-century England. In addition to Robinson Crusoe, Defoe penned other famous works including Captain Singleton, A Journal of the Plague Year, Captain Jack, Moll Flanders and Roxana. Defoe died in 1731.