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Fortunes and Misfortunes of the Famous Moll Flanders

By Daniel Defoe

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| Others | 9781426476754

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Moll Flanders is born in Newgate prison and abandoned six months later. Her drive to find a secure place in society propels her through incest, adultery, bigamy, prostitution, ...

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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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