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Moll Flanders

(Modern Library Classics)

By Daniel Defoe, Virginia Woolf

(266)

| Paperback | 9780375760105

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Written in a time when criminal biographies enjoyed great success, Daniel Defoe’s Moll Flanders details the life of the irresistible Moll and her struggles through poverty and sin in search of property and power. Born in Newgate Prison to a picaresque mother, Moll propels herself througContinue

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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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Moirne Stark said on Aug 1, 2008 | Add your feedback

scrittura pesante, ma come storia è di gran lunga migliore di robinson crusoe!

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