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The Short Stories of Daniel Defoe - One of the leading people that helped popularize fictional writing in England

Daniel Defoe

Narrator Richard Mitchley, Ghizela Rowe

Publisher: The Copyright Group

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Summary

Defoe is most well known for his classic novels Robinson Crusoe and Moll Flanders.  Born around 1659 he was also a journalist, a pamphleteer, a businessman, a spy -  and a writer of short stories.  His life was long and colourful covering all manner of fields and usually closely followed by political intrigue or unpaid bills.    But the breath of his works are still highly regarded indeed his Journal Of A Plague Year is an important account of that disastrous year for England.  His novels of course are regularly used as the basis of films and TV shows as well lauded for their contribution to the birth of novels as an art form.   In these short stories Defoe  succinctly emblazons his style upon subjects as diverse as apparitions, pirates and politics. This volume is brought to your ears by Richard Mitchley and Ghizela Rowe. 
 
01 - Daniel Defoe - An Introduction 
02 - Dickory Cronke - The Dumb Philosopher Or Great Britain's Wonder 
03 - The Apparition Of Mrs Veal 
04 - The History Of The Pirates
Duration: about 3 hours (02:48:11)
Publishing date: 2014-01-01; Unabridged; Copyright Year: — Copyright Statment: —