The Fortunes and Misfortunes of the Famous Moll Flanders
By Daniel Defoe, David Blewett (Editor), David Blewett (Preface)
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The volume contains at the end 7 unnambered pages with maps.
Born in Newgate prison and abandoned six months later, Moll's drive to find and hold on to a secure place in society propels her through incest, adultery, bigamy, prostitution and a resourceful career as a thief ('the greatest Artist of m Continue
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- English Books
- Paperback 454 Pages
- Edition: 1
- ISBN-10: 0140433139
- ISBN-13: 9780140433135
- Publisher: Penguin Books (Penguin Classics)
- Pub date: Oct 03, 1989
- Dimensions: 1226 mm x 839 mm x 194 mm Just how big is that?
- Also available as: Mass Market Paperback, Hardcover, Audio CD, Audio Cassette, Library Binding, School & Library Binding, Others and eBook
- In other languages: other languages
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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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