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The Daniel Defoe Library

The Daniel Defoe Library

By: Daniel Defoe
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Step into an audio-cabinet of curiosities, where the works of Daniel Defoe are read in their full measure, without haste or abridgment. Each episode presents a faithful narration, as though a traveller’s journal opened by candlelight - tales of shipwreck and survival, of commerce, conscience, and the restless spirit of adventure.

Designed for listeners who favour patience over noise, this podcast invites you to keep company with rogues, merchants, and solitary islanders, hearing every page as it might have been spoken in a London coffee-house of old.Public domain Daily
Episodes
  • Roxana, The Fortunate Mistress Section 26

    Roxana, The Fortunate Mistress Section 26
    Jun 30 2026
    In which the precarious secret of Roxana’s identity is threatened by a persistent girl claiming kinship, prompting distress and dark resolutions among her household. A chance encounter aboard a ship laden with uneasy concealments reveals unforeseen connections that sharpen the suspense of concealment and discovery.
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    29 mins
  • Roxana, The Fortunate Mistress Section 25

    Roxana, The Fortunate Mistress Section 25
    Jun 29 2026
    In which Roxana attains the title and lifestyle of a countess through her spouse’s inheritance and carefully crafted public narrative, securing legitimacy and respectability for their family while reflecting on her conflicting feelings towards her children and past. Yet despite outward prosperity, she is haunted by melancholy and the threat of exposure from one of her daughters, whose suspicions jeopardise the carefully maintained concealments of her earlier life.
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    24 mins
  • Roxana, The Fortunate Mistress Section 24

    Roxana, The Fortunate Mistress Section 24
    Jun 28 2026
    In which the narrator compassionately reflects upon her past hardships and extends generous aid to a struggling widow, whilst carefully delineating the separation of her own ill-gotten wealth from her husband's honourable estate to preserve his fortune. The couple settles their considerable fortunes with mutual understanding and prudence, though beneath their prosperity lies a shadow of remorse and the apprehension of future retribution.
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    26 mins
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