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en-wikipedia-org-6253		Daniel Defoe - Wikipedia			.html	text/html	7903	785	70	He is most famous for his novel Robinson Crusoe, published in 1719, which is claimed to be second only to the Bible in its number of translations.[2] He has been seen as one of the earliest proponents of the English novel, and helped to popularise the form in Britain with others such as Aphra Behn and Samuel Richardson.[3] Defoe wrote many political tracts and was often in trouble with the authorities, and spent a period in prison. In 1709, Defoe authored a rather lengthy book entitled The History of the Union of Great Britain, an Edinburgh publication printed by the Heirs of Anderson.[23] The book was not published anonymously and cites Defoe twice as being its author.[24][25] The book attempts to explain the facts leading up to the Act of Union 1707, dating all the way back to 6 December 1604 when King James I was presented with a proposal for unification.[26] This so-called "first draft" for unification took place 100 years before the signing of the 1707 accord, which respectively preceded the commencement of Robinson Crusoe by another ten years.	./cache/en-wikipedia-org-6253.html	./txt/en-wikipedia-org-6253.txt