The fortunes and misfortunes of the famous Moll Flanders
also, The fortunate mistress, or The Lady Roxana, with an introd. by E.A. Baker.
by Daniel Defoe
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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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Moll Flanders
Oct 27, 2001, Quality Paperback Book Club, J'AI LU
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The Fortunes And Misfortunes of Moll Flanders
1996, Penguin Books
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Gluck Und Ungluck Der Beruhmten Moll Flanders
Feb 23, 1991, C. H. Beck Und Kiepenheuer
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