Mary Godolphin was the pseudonym of Lucy Aikin who undertook translating great literature into single-syllable words so that young readers could enjoy plots that were considerably more interesting than, say, the McGuffey readers of the 1880 s or the Dick and Jane  primers of the 1950s (still around today as decodable readers  in elementary schools). She produced this volume based on Daniel Defoe s most famous work, considered by many to be the first English novel (1719). She also rendered Bunyan s Pilgrim s Progress and Wyss Swiss Family Robinson, which she translated as well.      

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   Read by Denny Sayers