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The Daniel Defoe Library

The Daniel Defoe Library

By: Daniel Defoe
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 Step into an audio-cabinet of curiosities, where the works of Daniel Defoe are read in their full measure, without haste or abridgment. Each episode presents a faithful narration, as though a traveller’s journal opened by candlelight - tales of shipwreck and survival, of commerce, conscience, and the restless spirit of adventure.

Designed for listeners who favour patience over noise, this podcast invites you to keep company with rogues, merchants, and solitary islanders, hearing every page as it might have been spoken in a London coffee-house of old.Public domain
Episodes
  • Robinson Crusoe Chapter 20 - Fight Between Friday and a Bear

    Robinson Crusoe Chapter 20 - Fight Between Friday and a Bear
    Apr 23 2026
    In which my companion Friday, with a bold and cunning spirit, engages a massive bear in a surprising contest, providing much-needed diversion amidst a perilous journey through snow-covered forests haunted by ravenous wolves. We face a harrowing encounter with these fierce creatures that tests our wits and courage before reaching safety and reflecting on the varied fortunes and ventures that have shaped my life hitherto.
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    28 mins
  • Robinson Crusoe Chapter 19 - Return to England

    Robinson Crusoe Chapter 19 - Return to England
    Apr 22 2026
    In which I take my leave of the island after many years, return to England a stranger to all, and set about recovering and managing the estate I had left behind in the Brazils, aided by an honest old captain and confronted with the difficulties of trust and travel. Then, after much reflection and preparation, I embark on a perilous overland journey through snow-covered mountains, where my faithful servant Friday’s courage proves a timely rescue against a dangerous attack by wolves.
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    35 mins
  • Robinson Crusoe Chapter 18 - The Ship Recovered

    Robinson Crusoe Chapter 18 - The Ship Recovered
    Apr 21 2026
    In which a careful stratagem unfolds as a small company, beleaguered yet resolute, confronts a band of mutinous men whose defeat and surrender marks a turning point in their fortunes. The narrative gently traces the parley, the securing of prisoners, and the gracious provision for their confinement, all bathed in reflections on providence and the hard-won deliverance granted by Heaven’s unseen hand.
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    38 mins
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