Daniel Defoe Audio

London's Great Plague of 1665 devastated the city, as Europe's final bubonic outbreak killed...

For anyone with an abiding interest in classic literature, we present this series of concise summaries of some of the most time-worn classics.

Follow the fortunes and misfortunes of the famous Moll Flanders. She was born in Newgate, and during a life of continued variety for three-score years, besides her childhood, was 12 years a whore...

From her birth in Newgate Prison, where her mother is under sentence of death for theft, to her final position of wealth, Moll Flanders demonstrates a spirit of industry and an indomitable will.

Daniel Defoe's Moll Flanders details the life of the irresistible Moll and her struggles through poverty and sin in search of property and power....

Moll Flanders, Defoe's 18th Century classic novel, was "marketed" in its day in much the same way that a modern commercial novel might be - its title page promised the racy details of a woman's life spent in thievery and whoredom.

Robinson Crusoe, the first English novel, was an immediate success when first published in 1719, and has been an internationally popular classic ever since...

One of the first true novels in the English language, Robinson Crusoe...

The book begins with the restless longings of young Robinson Crusoe for travel and adventure and climaxes with the ultimate fusion of man’s resourcefulness with the agents of nature.

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

Robinson Crusoe is a novel by Daniel Defoe, first published in 1719 and sometimes regarded as the first novel in English.

Son of a middle-class Englishman, Robinson Crusoe takes to the sea to find adventure. And find it he does when on one of his voyages he is shipwrecked on a deserted South American island for 35 years.

Here is 'Robinson Crusoe' by Daniel Defoe in its entirety as a weekly podcast.