Moll Flanders (Hardcover)
Language: English
Published by Random House USA Inc, New York, 1991
- Hardcover
- New
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Hardcover. This is the spirited story of a survivor whose racy anecdotes and shady dealings only underline her essential warmth and goodness. But there is nothing sentimental about Moll, who presents herself warts and all. Though her adventures take her abroad, she remains the vivid creation of London.Moll Flanders, pickpocket and prostitutea mercantile genius trading in the oldest human commodityhas been for the past three centuries an enduring representative of reckless vitality combined with unshakable inner virtue. Daniel Defoe manages his story with such skill that our affection for his heroine increases with each astonishing sin she commits.Molls adventurespossibly taken by Defoe from the story of some real criminal he met in Newgate, who five times a wife, twelve year a thief, eight year a transported felon, at last grew rich, lived honest and died a penitentis told with the directness of narrative and reality of incident in which Defoe, often called the father of the novel, has never been equaled.(Book Jacket Status: Not Jacketed) The story of a woman who is born in poverty and later becomes, in turn, a prostitute, thief, wife, and finally, rich penitent. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.…
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- Title
- Moll Flanders (Hardcover)
- Author
- Daniel Defoe
- Publisher
- Random House USA Inc, New York
- Publication year
- 1991
- Condition
- new
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0679405488
- ISBN 13
- 9780679405481
Moll Flanders, pickpocket and prostitute-a mercantile genius trading in the oldest human commodity-has been for the past three centuries an enduring representative of reckless vitality combined with unshakable inner virtue. Daniel Defoe manages his story with such skill that our affection for his heroine increases with each astonishing sin she commits.
Moll's adventures-possibly taken by Defoe from the story of some real criminal he met in Newgate, who "five times a wife, twelve year a thief, eight year a transported felon, at last grew rich, lived honest and died a penitent"-is told with the directness of narrative and reality of incident in which Defoe, often called the father of the novel, has never been equaled.
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About the Author
At fifty-nine Defoe turned to fiction, completing The Life and Strange Surprising Adventures of Robinson Crusoe (1719), partly based on the saga of Alexander Selkirk, a Scottish sailor; Moll Flanders (1722); Colonel Jack (1722); A Journal of the Plague Years (1722); and Roxana or the Fortunate Mistress (1724).
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