![]() ![]() The Farther Adventures sees Crusoe return to his island following the death of his wife in England following the death of Man Friday, his faithful servant, he travels to Madagascar, the Far East, and Siberia, before returning to England ten years later. The Farther Adventures of Robinson Crusoe followed later in the same year, with Serious Reflections of Robinson Crusoe following a year later in 1720 (though this third book was little more than a collection of Defoe’s earlier works which was published under the Crusoe ‘brand’). Defoe wrote two sequels to Robinson Crusoe. As we reveal in our interesting facts about Robinson Crusoe, the popularity of that novel led Defoe to write two follow-up books, published speedily after the original. They also chanted Defoe’s own ‘ Hymn to the Pillory’ in support, and raised a glass to him.ĥ. ![]() ![]() ![]() But far from assaulting Defoe with stones and rotten fruit, the crowd reportedly threw flowers at the writer. He was put in the pillory for one of his seditious pamphlets. In 1703, he was put in the pillory for writing a satirical pamphlet, The Shortest Way with the Dissenters, attacking the treatment of religious dissenters in England. ![]()
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