{"product_id":"robinson-crusoe-9780375757327","title":"Robinson Crusoe","description":"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDaniel Defoe was born Daniel Foe in London in 1660. It was perhaps, ineveitable that Defoe, an outspoken man, would become a political journalist. As a Puritan he believed God had given him a mission to print the truth, that is, to proselytize on religion and politics, and in fact, he became a prolific pamphleteer satirizing the hypocrisies of both Church and State. Defoe admired William III, and his poem \u003ci\u003eThe True-Born Englishman \u003c\/i\u003e(1701) won him the King's friendship. But an ill-timed satire on High Church extremists, The Shortest Way with the Dissenters, published during Queen Anne's reign, resulted in his being pilloried and imprisoned for seditious libel in 1703. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAt fifty-nine Defoe turned to fiction, completing \u003ci\u003eThe Life and Strange Surprising Adventures of Robinson Crusoe\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e(1719), partly based on the saga of Alexander Selkirk, a Scottish sailor; \u003cb\u003eMoll Flanders\u003c\/b\u003e (1722); \u003ci\u003eColonel Jack\u003c\/i\u003e (1722); \u003ci\u003eA Journal of the Plague Years\u003cb\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e(1722); and \u003ci\u003eRoxana or the Fortunate Mistress\u003c\/i\u003e (1724).\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Modern Library","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50652133490962,"sku":"9780375757327","price":7.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_83b4b5a2-cbca-4486-aee9-9d182d3055a5.jpg?v=1764754417","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/robinson-crusoe-9780375757327","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}