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La madre di Moll è una reclusa nella prigione di Newgate che riceve un rinvio "appellandosi al ventre", ovvero invocando la consuetudine di rimandare l'esecuzione per le criminali incinte. La madre viene poi deportata in America e Moll Flanders (questo, lei sottolinea, non è il suo vero nome, che non rivela mai) è allevata fino all'adolescenza da una buona madre adottiva; poi decide di andare a lavorare come serva presso una famiglia, dove viene amata da entrambi i figli.
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About the Author:
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Daniel Defoe was born at the beginning of a period of history known as the English Restoration, so-named because it was when King Charles II restored the monarchy to England following the English Civil War and the brief dictatorship of Oliver Cromwell. Defoe’s contemporaries included Isaac Newton and Samuel Pepys.
Defoe was born in London and during his formative years was witness to the Great Plague (1665-6) and the Great Fire (1666), both of which had considerable effect on the neighbourhood he lived in. In addition to these disasters, the English were at war with the Dutch between 1665 and 1667, which saw many privateer ships involved in attacking the Dutch fleet as Charles had insufficient money to fund the war. Privateers essentially paid themselves with the booty they acquired from the enemy ships, which included trade vessels as well as men’o’war. In turn this led to the evolution of piracy in times of peace. It is undoubtedly this roguish activity on the high seas that inspired Defoe to write his famous novel Robinson Crusoe.
Daniel Defoe was born in London in 1660. He worked briefly as a hosiery merchant, then as an intelligence agent and political writer. His writings resulted in his imprisonment on several occasions, and earned him powerful friends and enemies. During his lifetime Defoe wrote over two hundred and fifty books, pamphlets and journals and travelled widely in both Europe and the British Isles. Among his most famous works are Robinson Crusoe (1719), Moll Flanders (1722) and A Journal of the Plague Year (1722). Though Defoe was nearly sixty before he began writing fiction, his work is so fundamental to the development of the novel that he is often cited as the first true English novelist. He is also regarded as a founding father of modern journalism and one of the earliest travel writers. Daniel Defoe died in April 1731.
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- PublisherOrion mass market paperback
- Publication date1996
- ISBN 10 0752808451
- ISBN 13 9780752808451
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages304
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