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Moll Flanders

By Daniel Defoe

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| Library Binding | 9780899663135

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Tor Classics are affordably-priced editions designed to attract the young reader. Original dynamic cover art enthusiastically represents the excitement of each story. Appropriate "reader friendly" type sizes have been chosen for each title-offering clear, accurate, and readable text. All editions arContinue

Tor Classics are affordably-priced editions designed to attract the young reader. Original dynamic cover art enthusiastically represents the excitement of each story. Appropriate "reader friendly" type sizes have been chosen for each title-offering clear, accurate, and readable text. All editions are complete and unabridged, and feature Introductions and Afterwords.This edition of Moll Flanders includes a Foreword, Biographical Note, and Afterword by Nancy Springer.The conditions of Moll Flanders' birth could not have been more depressing. Her mother was a petty thief who was caught and sent to the notorious Newgate prison in London. It was in that prison that Moll was born. Deemed an orphan, Moll was later sent to apprentice as a servant with a respectable family. Moll has designs on a life better than serving others. But as she discovers, independence and fortune are not easy to come by. A string of dreadful misfortunes--including five luckless marriages--force Moll into the streets, where her only means of support is a life of crime.But Moll refuses to give up: she will succeed!Moll Flanders is a triumphant portrait of a strong-willed woman determined to make her own way in eighteenth-century England.

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  • Le fortune e sfortune della famosa Moll Flanders

    La presentazione e le recensioni di “Le fortune e sfortune della famosa Moll Flanders”, opera di Daniel Defoe edita da Bompiani. «Comparso per la prima volta in Inghilterra nel 1722, il romanzo di Daniel Defoe Moll Flanders assunse subito una straord ... (read full critics)

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    A society driven by riches

    "My course of life for forty years had been a horrid complication of wickedness, whoredom, adultery, incest, lying, theft; and in a word, everything but murder and treason had been my practice."

    That quote sums up the whole novel. Defoe shows a woman who is so terrified by poverty, that she g ... (continue)

    "My course of life for forty years had been a horrid complication of wickedness, whoredom, adultery, incest, lying, theft; and in a word, everything but murder and treason had been my practice."

    That quote sums up the whole novel. Defoe shows a woman who is so terrified by poverty, that she goes from a series of marriages and then becomes a pickpocket in order to provide for herself. An interesting character study with an entertaining plot.

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