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A Journal of the Plague Year

A Journal of the Plague Year

The novel is a fictionalised account of one man's experiences of the year 1665, in which the Great Plague struck the city of London. The book is told roughly chronologically, though without sections or chapter headings. Author - Daniel Defoe. Narrator...

A Journal of the Plague Year

A Journal of the Plague Year

Explore a harrowing real-life account of the Black Death from the survivors who lived to tell the tale.Offering a gritty and eye-opening exploration of what it was like to live during London in 1665 – the year the bubonic plague struck the city and...

A Journal of the Plague Year

A Journal of the Plague Year

“Another plague year would reconcile all these differences; a close conversing with death, or with diseases that threaten death, would scum off the gall from our tempers, remove the animosities among us, and bring us to see with differing eyes than...

A Journal of the Plague Year

A Journal of the Plague Year

Daniel Defoe (1659 or 1661 - 1731) was an English writer and journalist who gained enduring fame for his novel Robinson Crusoe. In 1665, the bubonic plague swept through London, claiming nearly 100,000 victims. In ‘A Journal of the Plague Year’, first...

A Journal of the Plague Year

A Journal of the Plague Year

This audiobook is narrated by a digital voice.Classic 1722 account of the epidemic that ravaged England nearly 60 years earlier. Defoe used his considerable talents as a journalist and novelist to reconstruct — historically and fictionally — the Great...

A Journal of the Plague Year

A Journal of the Plague Year

This audiobook is narrated by a digital voice.Classic 1722 account of the epidemic that ravaged England nearly 60 years earlier. Defoe used his considerable talents as a journalist and novelist to reconstruct — historically and fictionally — the Great...

A Journal of the Plague Year (Unabridged)

A Journal of the Plague Year (Unabridged)

This audiobook is narrated by a digital voice.London, 1665. Whispers turn to screams as a shadow creeps over the bustling city. The plague. Our narrator, a man determined to survive, takes you into the heart of this terrifying epidemic. Witness the...

Captain Singleton

Captain Singleton

This audiobook is narrated by a digital voice.Set sail for adventure! As it is usual for great persons, whose lives have been remarkable, and whose actions deserve recording to posterity, to insist much upon their originals, give full accounts of...

Diario del año de la peste

Diario del año de la peste

es una novela de Daniel Defoe publicada por primera vez en marzo de 1722. La novela es una relato ficticio de las experiencias de un hombre durante el año de 1665, en el que la ciudad de Londres sufrió el azote de la gran plaga. Author - Daniel Defoe....

Dickory Cronke - The Dumb Philosopher Or Great Britain's Wonder

Dickory Cronke - The Dumb Philosopher Or Great Britain's Wonder

Daniel Defoe is most well-known for his classic novels Robinson Crusoe and Moll Flanders. Born around 1660, he was also a journalist, a pamphleteer, a businessman, a spy. His life was long and colourful, and the breadth of his work, still highly...

Fortunes and Misfortunes of the Famous Moll Flanders

Fortunes and Misfortunes of the Famous Moll Flanders

Defoe wrote this novel after his work as a journalist and pamphleteer. By 1722, Defoe had become recognized as a novelist, with the success of Robinson Crusoe in 1719. His political work was tapering off at this point, due to the fall of both Whig and...

Journal of the Plague Year

Journal of the Plague Year

First published in March 1722, 57 years after the event that struck more than 100,000 people, A Journal of the Plague Year is a compelling portrait of life during London’s horrific bubonic plague. Through the eyes of H.F. (speculated to be Defoe’s...

Life, Adventures & Piracies of Captain Singleton

Life, Adventures & Piracies of Captain Singleton

The Life, Adventures & Piracies of the Famous Captain Singleton is a "bipartite adventure story whose first half covers a traversal of Africa, and whose second half taps into the contemporary fascination with piracy. It has been commended for its...

The original title says it all: 'The Fortunes and Misfortunes of the Famous Moll Flanders, who was Born in Newgate, and during a Life of continue'd Variety for Three-score Years, besides her Childhood, was Twelve Year a Whore, five times a Wife...

Moll Flanders by Daniel Defoe is a gripping tale of survival, sin, and redemption in 17th-century England. Born in Newgate Prison, Moll narrates her tumultuous life as she strives for security and wealth in a harsh, unforgiving society. Through a...

‘The Fortunes and Misfortunes of the Famous Moll Flanders, who was Born in Newgate, and during a Life of continue’d Variety for Three-score Years, besides her Childhood, was Twelve Year a Whore, five times a Wife (whereof once to her own Brother),...

Born in Newgate Prison and abandoned soon after, Moll Flanders is searching for a secure place in society. Her desire to belong propels her into all kinds of trouble from numerous marriages, bigamy and incest to theft. Charting her progress from an...

Born in Newgate Prison and abandoned soon after, Moll Flanders is searching for a secure place in society. Her desire to belong propels her into all kinds of trouble from numerous marriages, bigamy and incest to theft. Charting her progress from an...

This audiobook is narrated by a digital voice.Moll, which she emphasizes is not her birth name, though she never does reveal what it was, is raised until she is teenager in America by a foster mother. She then gets a job as a household servant where...

This audiobook is narrated by a digital voice.I was born in the year 1632, in the city of York, of a good family, though not of that country, my father being a foreigner of Bremen, who settled first at Hull. He got a good estate by merchandise, and...

Robinson Crusoe

Robinson Crusoe

Las aventuras de Robinson Crusoe contituye una novela emblemática y un auténtico clásico de la literarura de aventuras. Es la historia de un hombre que abandonando los sabios consejos y enseñanzas de sus padres se hace a la mar y naugfraga. Sin...

Robinson Crusoe

Robinson Crusoe

Robinson Crusoe, the first English novel, was an immediate success when first published in 1719, and has been an internationally popular classic ever since. The compelling tale of a man who put to sea in search of adventure and found himself...

Robinson Crusoe

Robinson Crusoe

On Robinson Crusoe’s first seafaring voyage, his ship sinks in a violent storm. On his second voyage he is enslaved by pirates. When Crusoe braves the ocean after several years in Brazil, Providence leaves him as the sole survivor of a shipwreck on a...

Robinson Crusoe

Robinson Crusoe

"Robinson Crusoe" is one of the earliest novels in the English language, written by Daniel Defoe and first published in 1719. It tells the story of a young man named Robinson Crusoe who desires to go to sea, against the wishes of his family. After...

Robinson Crusoe

Robinson Crusoe

Robinson Crusoe flees Britain on a ship after killing his friend over the love of Mary. A fierce ocean storm wrecks his ship and leaves him stranded by himself on an uncharted island. Left to fend for himself, Crusoe seeks out a tentative survival on...