

Robinson Crusoe
Author: Daniel Defoe
Narrator: John Lescault
Unabridged: 12 hr 9 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Spotify Audiobooks
Published: 01/01/2001
Categories: Young Adult Fiction, Action & Adventure, Historical Fiction, Romance
Synopsis
Daniel Defoe lived between 1660 and 1731, a period of much historical change in England. The rapidly changing economic and political circumstances in England helped create a vibrant middle class that was mercantilist, protestant, desirous of political power, and hungry for cultural life. Defoe was born into such a middle class family, the son of a fairly wealthy tallow chandler. He received an excellent education and lived a varied and eventful life. He worked, often at the same time, as a spy, hosier, journalist, political pamphleteer, and businessman. Defoe, however, is best remembered for his literary work. Regarded by many as the father of the English novel, Defoe published his masterpiece, Robinson Crusoe, in 1719. Three years later he cemented his reputation with the novel Moll Flanders.