Daniel Defoe

Robinson Crusoe

Read by Denny Sayers (d. 2015)


Daniel Defoe



Daniel Defoe’s The Life and Strange Surprizing Adventures of Robinson Crusoe of York, Mariner (1719) is considered by many the first English…

Robinson Crusoe (version 2)

Read by Mark F. Smith


Daniel Defoe



Shipwrecked and castaway, Daniel DeFoe’s hard-luck character is still the standard for “growing where you’re planted.” Captured by pirates, …

The Further Adventures of Robinson Crusoe

Read by David Leeson


Daniel Defoe



“THE FARTHER ADVENTURES OF ROBINSON CRUSOE; Being the Second and Last Part OF HIS LIFE, And of the Strange Surprizing Accounts of his Travel…

A Journal of the Plague Year

Read by Denny Sayers (d. 2015)


Daniel Defoe



The novel is a fictionalized account of one man's experiences of the year 1665, in which the Great Plague struck the city of London. The boo…

The Fortunes and Misfortunes of the Famous Moll Flanders

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Daniel Defoe



Defoe wrote this novel after his work as a journalist and pamphleteer. By 1722, Defoe had become recognized as a novelist, with the success …

The Life, Adventures & Piracies of Captain Singleton

Read by Denny Sayers (d. 2015)


Daniel Defoe



The Life, Adventures & Piracies of the Famous Captain Singleton is a "bipartite adventure story whose first half covers a traversal…

Roxana: The Fortunate Mistress

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Daniel Defoe



The full title of the novel is Roxana: The Fortunate Mistress Or, a History of the Life and Vast Variety of Fortunes of Mademoiselle de Bele…

Robinson Crusoe Written Anew for Children

Read by Denny Sayers (d. 2015)


Daniel Defoe



Adaptation of the story of Robinson Crusoe for grammar school children. Tells how the shipwrecked sailor makes a new life for himself on the…

The Storm

Read by Denny Sayers (d. 2015)


Daniel Defoe



The Storm (1704) holds a special place in the writings of Daniel Defoe. Widely considered a founding document of modern journalism, The Sto…

The History of the Devil

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Daniel Defoe



Also known as "A Political History of the Devil"This book is divided into two parts: first, the history of the devil from his fall…

Robinson Crusoe in Words of One Syllable

Read by Denny Sayers (d. 2015)


Daniel Defoe



Mary Godolphin was the pseudonym of Lucy Aikin who undertook translating great literature into single-syllable words so that young readers c…

Robinson Crusoe in Words of One Syllable (Version 2)

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Daniel Defoe



This book is a fictional autobiography of the title character — a castaway who spends 28 years on a remote tropical island near Trinidad, en…

Moll Flanders - Version 2

Read by Peter Dann


Daniel Defoe



This warm and witty novel presents itself as the first person narration of an immensely likeable and resourceful woman who, born in the most…