The fortunes and misfortunes of the famous Moll Flanders.
The fortunes and misfortunes of the famous Moll Flanders.
Alternate Title
:
Moll Flanders
By
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Defoe, Daniel, 1661?-1731.
Publication Date
:
1971
Subject Term
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Criminals -- Fiction.
Prostitutes -- Fiction.
Adventure fiction.
Geographic Term
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London (England) -- Fiction.
Virginia -- Fiction.
Series
:
OXFORD WORLD'S CLASSICS
OXFORD WORLD'S CLASSICS.
Summary
:
Moll Flanders recounts the story of her extraordinary life, from her birth in Newgate prison to her declining years in married posperity. After being seduced in the home of her adoptive family she lives off her wits and her beauty, as a whore, 'five times a Wife', and a thief, and is eventually transported to Virginia for her crimes. Rich and penitent, Moll reflects on a world that is both good and evil, just as the reader both abhors and admires her. Arguably the first English novel, Moll Flanders is also a romance, its heroine in perpetual search for a lost familial paradise.
Language
:
English
ISBN
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978019955607 (pbk.)
Library | Collection | Collection | Call Number | Status |
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Corner Brook (WCB) | Adult Fic Pbk | Adult Fiction Paperback | FIC DEF | Trace |