Daniel Defoe

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....

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....

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

Popular from first day of publication, it is one of the most widely published books in history. Widely imitated in literature, film, television and radio. It’s name is used to define a genre: the Robinsonade....

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....

Beautiful, proud Roxana is terrified of being poor. When her husband leaves her penniless with five children, she must choose between being a virtuous beggar or a rich whore....

Young Robinson Crusoe has a burning ambition to be a sailor. Paying no attention to his parent's warnings he runs away to sea to embark on an extraordinary series of adventures....

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

A shipwreck. A sole survivor, stranded on a deserted island. What could be more appealing to children than Robinson Crusoe’s amazing adventure? Set in the 17th century, it offers plenty of suspense and everyday detail about how Crusoe manages to stay alive....

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

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....

Loosely based on a true account of a Scottish sailor—Alexander Selkirk—this is a tale of a shipwrecked man’s fall from grace and progress to redemption....

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....

After surviving a terrible shipwreck, Robinson Crusoe discovers he is the only human on an island far from any shipping routes or rescue....

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....

Robinson Crusoe, set ashore on an island after a terrible storm at sea, is forced to make do with only a knife, some tobacco, and a pipe....

Robinson Crusoe relates the tale of an English sailor marooned on a desert island for nearly three decades.

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

Shipwrecked and cast ashore onto an uninhabited island, Robinson Crusoe ingeniously carves out a solitary, primitive existence for 24 years....

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....