Selkirk's story aroused great interest at home, and Daniel Defoe's fictional character Robinson Crusoe was almost certainly based in part on him.

The term " fictional autobiography " has been coined to define novels about a fictional character written as though the character were writing their own biography, of which Daniel Defoe's Moll Flanders, is an early example.

Title page from Daniel Defoe's: The History Of The Union Of Great Britain dated 1709 and printed in Edinburgh by the Heirs of Anderson

* Russian toponyms in Daniel Defoe's novels

* Daniel Defoe's Robinson Crusoe was supposedly the autobiography of the title character, an English castaway who spent 28 years on a remote island.

Introduced fauna by humans include rats and goats, which castaway Alexander Selkirk survived on during his four year stay from 1705 to 1709 ; his travails provided the inspiration for Daniel Defoe's novel Robinson Crusoe.

The same year, she starred in the film adaptation of Daniel Defoe's Moll Flanders for which she received a Satellite Nomination for Best Actress in a Drama.

* Daniel Defoe's The True-Born Englishman

*" Daniel Defoe's Robinson Crusoe & the Robinsonades Digital Collection " with over 200 versions of Robinson Crusoe openly and freely online with full text and zoomable page images from the Baldwin Library of Historical Children's Literature

In Britain, the body of Tobias Smollett's work, and Daniel Defoe's Moll Flanders ( 1722 ) are considered picaresque, but they lack the sense of religious redemption of delinquency that was very important in Spanish and German novels.

In 1742, he printed the third edition of Daniel Defoe's Tour through Great Britain.

They are famous for their lobster and the fact that one of the islands, Robinson Crusoe Island, is where Alexander Selkirk, the inspiration for Daniel Defoe's novel, was marooned for about four years.

** Daniel Defoe's novel Moll Flanders

The Cross is referred to in Daniel Defoe's a " Tour through the whole island of Great Britain ", where he reports on the Great Fire of Northampton in 1675, "... a townsman being at Queen's Cross upon a hill on the south side of the town, about two miles off, saw the fire at one end of the town then newly begun, and that before he could get to the town it was burning at the remotest end, opposite where he first saw it.

Plaistow is mentioned in Daniel Defoe's 1724 work, " Tour of the Eastern Counties " ( part of his “ A tour thro ’ the whole island of Great Britain ”), as a town in which there had been much new building as well as repairs to existing houses since the Revolution.

In the early 18th Century Yarmouth, as a thriving herring port, was vividly and admiringly described several times in Daniel Defoe's travel journals, in part as follows:

The English novel has generally been seen as beginning with Daniel Defoe's Robinson Crusoe ( 1719 ) and Moll Flanders ( 1722 ), though John Bunyan's The Pilgrim's Progress ( 1678 )

Boosted by 19 April 1709 issue of Daniel Defoe's A Review of the Affairs of France, a periodical that supported the Harley ministry, the concept was a key factor in British negotiations, and was reflected in the final treaties.

Another example can be found in Daniel Defoe's Robinson Crusoe when the title character kills an unknown bird for food but finds " its flesh was carrion, and fit for nothing ".

* Daniel Defoe's An Essay Upon Projects suggests insurance and an income tax, among other public measures.

The first steel pen is said to have been made in 1803 ( but in Daniel Defoe's book " A Tour Through the Whole Island of Great Britain-1724-26 " Letter VII he wrote: ' the plaster of the ceilings and walls in some rooms is so fine, so firm, so entire, that they break it off in large flakes, and it will bear writing on it with a pencil or steel pen ).

The first part of Daniel Defoe's Moll Flanders was set in Colchester.

The poetry of the time was highly formal, as exemplified by the works of Alexander Pope and the English novel became popular, with Daniel Defoe's Robinson Crusoe, Henry Fielding's Tom Jones and Samuel Richardson's Pamela.

In 1967 he published his first book, Vendredi ou les Limbes du Pacifique, retelling Daniel Defoe's Robinson Crusoe, adding to the story a philosophical depth.

On a later voyage, he was able to rescue Alexander Selkirk, who was Daniel Defoe's inspiration for Robinson Crusoe.

While Pepys provides an account of the Plague through his diary, Henry Foe's nephew Daniel Defoe published A Journal of the Plague Year, a fictional account of the plague, in 1722, possibly based on Foe's journals.

Incorporated in 1722 by Lieutenant Governor John Wentworth, Nottingham was named for Daniel Finch, 2nd Earl of Nottingham.

In A tour through England and Wales written in 1722, Daniel Defoe calls the river " Orwel " ( though does this inconsistently ).

* Daniel Defoe-A Journal of the Plague Year ( 1722 ), Moll Flanders ( 1722 )

In 1722 Daniel Defoe mentions the town calling it " Walton, under the Nase ".

* Daniel Defoe, Moll Flanders ( 1722 )

* Moll Flanders, a 1722 novel by Daniel Defoe

The new rectorship opened auspiciously and an era of prosperity seemed at hand when, on September 13, 1722, the rector, with Tutor Daniel Browne and several Congregational clergymen, met with the trustees, declared themselves doubtful of the validity of their ordination, and asked advice with regard to entering the Church of England.

The story of Sophonisba also served as subject for works by John Marston ( 1606 ), David Murray ( 1610 ), Nathaniel Lee ( 1676 ), Daniel Caspar von Lohenstein ( 1680 ), Henry Purcell ( 1685 ), Antonio Caldara ( 1708 ), Leonardo Leo ( 1718 ), Luca Antonio Predieri ( 1722 ), James Thomson ( 1729 ), Niccolò Jommelli ( 1746 ), Baldassare Galuppi ( 1747, 1764 ), Tommaso Traetta ( 1762 ), Antonio Boroni ( 1764 ), Christopher Gluck ( 1765 ), Maria Teresa Agnesi ( 1765 ), Mattia Vento ( 1766 ), François Joseph Lagrange-Chancel, revised by Voltaire ( 1770 ), Christian Gottlob Neefe ( 1776 ), António Leal Moreira ( 1783 ), Joseph Joaquín Mazuelo ( 1784 ), Vittorio Alfieri ( 1789 ), Pietro Alessandro Guglielmi ( 1802 ), Marcos Portugal ( 1803 ), Ferdinando Paer ( 1805 ), Vincenzo Federici ( 1805 ), Luigi Petrali ( 1844 ), Emanuel Geibel ( 1869 ), Jeronim de Rada ( 1892 ), Giuseppe Brunati ( 1904 ), Dimitrie Cuclin ( 1945 ), Vasco Graça Moura ( 1993 ), and others.

Daniel Defoe in 1722 described the village as famous for its cheese.

Joachim Daniel Jauch's daughter Constance Jauch ( 1722 – 1802 ) married Heinrich Lölhöffel von Löwensprung ( 1705 – 1763 ), privy councillor ( Hofrat ) and physician to the King Augustus III of Poland.

* Rebecca, married Daniel Dulany the Younger ( 1722 – 1797 ) in 1749.

In 1722 Daniel Defoe mentions the nearby town Walton calling it " Walton, under the Nase ".

Daniel Kehlmann's 2005 novel Die Vermessung der Welt, translated into English as Measuring the World ( 2006 ), explores Gauss's life and work through a lens of historical fiction, contrasting them with those of the German explorer Alexander von Humboldt.

* In the novel Simulacron-3 the author Daniel F. Galouye explores multiple levels of " reality " represented by the multiple levels of computer simulation involved.

born Daniel Foe, was an English trader, writer, journalist, pamphleteer and spy, who gained fame for his novel Robinson Crusoe.

Her last novel was Daniel Deronda, published in 1876, whereafter she and Lewes moved to Witley, Surrey ; but by this time Lewes's health was failing and he died two years later on 30 November 1878.

The novel is presented in the form of diary entries maintained on a PowerBook by the narrator, Daniel.

His email conversations with Daniel appear throughout the novel.

* Robinson Crusoe on Mars ( 1964 ) – A pastiche of the classic Daniel Defoe novel.

* The novel The Watsons Go to Birmingham: 1963, by Christopher Paul Curtis, mentions the movie in an impersonation by Daniel Watson, the father of the family.

He caught a lucky break in 1966 when producer Daniel Melnick needed a writer and director to adapt Katherine Anne Porter's short novel Noon Wine for television.

Produced by Daniel Melnick, who had previously worked with Peckinpah on Noon Wine, the screenplay was based on the novel The Siege of Trencher's Farm by Gordon Williams.

In the US, the new novels Moscow Club ( 1991 ) by Joseph Finder, Masquerade ( 1996 ) by Gayle Lynds, and The Unlikely Spy ( 1996 ) by Daniel Silva, and in the UK, A Spy By Nature ( 2001 ) by Charles Cumming and Remembrance Day ( 2000 ) by Henry Porter, maintained the spy novel in the post – Cold War world.

In Neal Stephenson's historical fiction novel Quicksilver one of the book's chief figures, Puritan Daniel Waterhouse, appears before an illegally reconstituted Star Chamber tribunal.

" A more modern work to use this idea was Daniel F. Galouye's novel Simulacron-3, which was made into a German teleplay titled Welt am Draht (" World on a Wire ") in 1973.

* Novel The Marching Season ; a spy fiction novel by Daniel Silva.

* The Virgin of Zesh ( 1953 )-Krishna novel noted for the early use ( for science fiction ) of a strong female protagonist and a possible influence on Daniel Keyes's Flowers for Algernon

* Alba ( novel ), a novel by Swiss author Daniel Odier

Robinson Crusoe is a novel by Daniel Defoe that was first published in 1719.

* Martha Endell – A young woman, once Little Emily's friend, who later gains a bad reputation ( we suppose she incurs in some sexually inappropriate behaviour and is thus disgraced ), who, in the later chapters of the novel helps Daniel Peggotty find his niece after she returns to London.

* Sargon, leader of the fat men in Daniel Pinkwater's 1982 novel Slaves of Spiegel

Daniel Mainwaring adapted the screenplay from Jack Finney's 1954 novel The Body Snatchers.

In Wyndham Lewis ' 1930 satirical novel The Apes of God, there is a character named Horace Zagreus who serves as mentor of the hapless protagonist, Daniel Boleyn.