An edition of Moll Flanders (1722)

The fortunes and misfortunes of the famous Moll Flanders, etc.

who was born in Newgate, and during a life of continu'd variety for threescore years, besides her childhood, was twelve year a whore, five times a wife (whereof once to her own brother), twelve year a thief, eight year a transported felon in Virginia, at last grew rich, liv'd honest, and died a penitent

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An edition of Moll Flanders (1722)

The fortunes and misfortunes of the famous Moll Flanders, etc.

who was born in Newgate, and during a life of continu'd variety for threescore years, besides her childhood, was twelve year a whore, five times a wife (whereof once to her own brother), twelve year a thief, eight year a transported felon in Virginia, at last grew rich, liv'd honest, and died a penitent

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These are the true confessions of a remarkable and passionate young woman are thought to have been based on the adventures of a real prisoner in Newgate where Moll was born. ostensibly written as a warning to wrongdoers, the moral of Defoe's candid and cautionary tale is often lost in the sheer vitality of Moll - one of the supreme characters of English comic fiction.

Her fortunes and misfortunes - 'twelve years a Whore, five times a Wife (once to her own brother), twelve years a Thief, eight years a transported Felon' - plunge the reader into the exciting world of the eighteenth-century low life.

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The fortunes and misfortunes of the famous Moll Flanders, etc.: who was born in Newgate, and during a life of continu'd variety for threescore years, besides her childhood, was twelve year a whore, five times a wife (whereof once to her own brother), twelve year a thief, eight year a transported felon in Virginia, at last grew rich, liv'd honest, and died a penitent
1964, New American Library
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1959, Houghton Mifflin
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The fortunes and misfortunes of the famous Moll Flanders: also, The fortunate mistress, or The Lady Roxana, with an introd. by E.A. Baker.
1906, G. Routledge

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"The text of this edition, which is based on the third edition of Moll Flanders, published in December 1722 by Chetwood, contains the corrections made by Defoe subsequent to the first edition (January 1722)."--p. 317

Bibliography: p. 315

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Signet classic -- CP192
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Fiction
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Moll Flanders

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PR3404 .M6 1964

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317 p. ;
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mollflanders0000dani_f7y3
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2757552

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