Daniel Defoe

Après quelques premières expéditions, Robinson Crusoé, marin d'York, s'embarque pour la Guinée le 1er septembre 1659...

En 1651, Robinson Crusoé quitte York, en Angleterre pour naviguer, contre la volonté de ses parents qui voulaient qu'il devienne avocat...

Après quelques premières expéditions, Robinson Crusoé, marin d'York, s'embarque pour la Guinée le 1er septembre 1659...

This collection contains adventure novels from various authors, recognized masters who have become classics in this genre....

First published in 1719, Daniel Defoe’s Robinson Crusoe is commonly considered as the first novel in English....

Au XVIIe siècle, un jeune garçon, Robinson Crusoé, quitte l'Autriche et sa famille pour accomplir son rêve : devenir marin. Mais le navire...

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....

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....

12 Books to Read Before You Die - Volume 2. Sound interesting? The author thinks so too! Listen to find out more....

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....

Running away to sea brings adventure and wealth, but then come shipwreck and a desperate struggle for survival....

Epistolary, confessional, and didactic in form, the book is presented as an autobiography of the title character...

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

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

Son of a middle-class Englishman, Robinson Crusoe takes to the sea to find adventure....

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....

I often walked along the shore, and one day I saw something in the sand....

Daniel Defoe's classic satire, read by Jan Francis. Defoe's rumbustious story tells the tale of Moll Flanders - her seductions, marriages and liaisons....

Three lively retellings of Daniel Defoe’s classic novels, plus two bonus programmes about his extraordinary life and far-reaching influence....

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....