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Beyond Belief: The Real Life of Daniel Defoe
Beyond Belief The Real Life of Daniel Defoe Author:John Martin John Martin reveals for the first time the real life of a highly talented religious dissenter, whose sometimes outwardly pious and holier-than-thou demeanour disguised another, altogether different existence in the shadows. Defoe's complex life as journalist, government spy and secret 'Governor General' of the press, was paralleled b... more »y great personal confusion. A gay man, he was 'married' many times, with children by several women; he was always in debt; thirteen times arrested; pilloried; and twice bankrupted. This book demonstrates that Defoe's own secret life was far stranger than all the pirates, courtesans, pimps and murderers who crowded his pages.« less