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Daniel Defoe is most famous for his classic novels Robinson Crusoe and Moll Flanders, but he was also a journalist, a pamphleteer, a businessman, a spy—and a writer of short stories. His life was long and colorful, and the breadth of his work, still highly regarded, is infused with similar vigor.
In these short stories, Defoe succinctly emblazons his style upon subjects as diverse as apparitions, pirates, and politics.
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About Daniel Defoe
Daniel Defoe (1660–1731), born in London as Daniel Foe, was a novelist, pamphleteer, journalist, and political spy. He is celebrated for his frank and dramatic realism in fiction and the accuracy, vigor, and lucidity of his journalism. Considered the father of the English novel, he was also the first author of ghost stories in English literature. He is best known for his novels Robinson Crusoe and Moll Flanders.
About the Narrators
Richard Mitchley is an actor and narrator who has appeared in Auf Wiedersehen, Pet…, The Black Adder, and Doctor Who.
Ghizela Rowe has worked in broadcast television for thirty years on a broad range of programming. Her specialization is in music. She helps run the Copyright Group, an extensive collection of master recording rights, and has lent her voice to many audiobooks, including The Poetry of Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Elizabeth Gaskell: The Short Stories, and The Romantics: An Introduction.