Daniel Defoe

Widely regarded as the first English novel, Daniel Defoe's Robinson Crusoe is one of the most popular and influential adventure stories of all time. This classic tale of shipwreck and survival on an uninhabited island was an instant success when first published in 1719, and it has inspired...

The Further Adventures of Robinson Crusoe is a book written by Daniel Defoe. It is widely considered to be one of the top 100 greatest books of all time....

In this satirical faux autobiography, Moll Flanders, abandoned at birth, sets her rebellious heart on a life of independence - no matter what it takes....

“I presume we need make no Apology for giving the Name of a History to the following Sheets, though they contain nothing but the Actions of a Parcel of Robbers.” —from the book This work was published in 1724 under the pseudonym Captain Charles Johnson by an unknown British author, usually...

Robinson Crusoe is considered by many to be the first novel in the English language....

First published in March 1722, 57 years after the event that struck more than 100,000 people, Journal of the Plague Year is a compelling portrait of life during London's horrific bubonic plague....

Robinson Crusoe, first published in 1719, was Defoe’s first novel and survives as his best-known work. Loosely based on a true account of a Scottish sailor—Alexander Selkirk—it is a tale of one man’s fall from grace and progress to redemption. The account of Crusoe’s life, scratched...

Michael Maloney reads Daniel Defoe's timeless tale of a man who has to use all his own skills to survive alone on an island....

When mariner Robinson Crusoe sails from London to the African coast to Brazil, his unpredictable voyage takes a catastrophic course. The lone survivor of a shipwreck, he washes ashore on an Atlantic island. Resourceful and determined to contend with providence and nature, he finds his...

Penguin presents the audiobook edition of Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe, read by Daniel Weyman. After surviving a terrible shipwreck, Robinson Crusoe discovers he is the only human on an island far from any shipping routes or rescue. At first he is devastated, but slowly, with patience and...

‘Thus fear of danger is ten thousand times more terrifying than danger itself.’ Published in 1719, and often considered the first ever English novel, Robinson Crusoe is an exhilarating tale of adventure and survival. The year is 1651. The young and headstrong, Robinson Crusoe sets sail on a...

This choice collection of spine tingling tales runs the gamut from slightly spooky to "I'm sleeping with all the lights on tonight!" A splendid grouping of tales from the pens of some of the great writers of the past. Enjoy these classic stories alone or with a friend, whenever your ears are free.

Here is Daniel Defoe's honest portrayal of one woman's struggle for economic survival in an unsympathetic world....

Classic Tales Of Horror offers up fifteen slices of powerful story-telling from the world's great mystery & classic horror authors....

Defoe's masterpiece is part adventure and part do-it-yourself book....

Possibly the first novel in the English language, Moll Flanders is the fictional autobiography of a delightfully scandalous young female rogue. Born in Newgate Prison in seventeenth-century England, Moll is predestined to poverty and lawlessness, yet relentlessly driven to overcome her fate...

In form epistolary, confessional, and didactic, the novel is a fictional autobiography of the title character, a castaway who spends years on a remote tropical island near Trinidad....

"Robinson Crusoe" ist ein Roman von Daniel Defoe, der die Geschichte eines Seemannes erzählt, der mehrere Jahre auf einer Insel als Schiffbrüchiger...

Rok 1651. Siedemnastoletni Robinson Crusoe nie chce wieść nudnego życia jak jego ojciec, kupiec z angielskiego miasta Hull, więc ucieka z domu...

What starts with young Jim Hawkins meeting a beggar and ends in a climactic battle between him and one of the most infamous villains in literature — Long John Silver — has long been revered as the ultimate pirate adventure story....