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One of the first novels in the history of literature (1) ______ written in England in 1719. It was Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe. Daniel Defoe was born (2) _____ London in the family of a rich man. When Daniel was a schoolboy, he began to write stories. After (3)_______ school, he worked in his father’s shop and (4)______ articles for newspapers. Defoe visited many countries and met many people. That helped him (5) ______ in his writings. In 1719, when Defoe was sixty years old, he wrote the novel Robinson Crusoe which (6) _______ him famous. Defoe used in his book a true story about a sailor who (7) ______ on an island for four years. Robinson Crusoe in Defoe's novel lived on an island for twenty-eight years. People liked (8) _____ novel in England and in many other countries, Daniel Defoe wrote other books. (9) ____, his novel Robinson Crusoe was the (10) _______ famous. Defoe was not a rich man when he died in 1731.

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