The Fortunes and Misfortunes of the Famous Moll Flanders (Penguin Classics)
Daniel Defoe's bawdy tale of a woman's struggle for independence and redemption, Moll Flanders is edited with an introduction and notes by David Ble… Mehr
Autor: Blewett, David
Verlag: Penguin
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Beschreibung
Daniel Defoe's bawdy tale of a woman's struggle for independence and redemption, Moll Flanders is edited with an introduction and notes by David Blewett in Penguin Classics.
Born
in Newgate prison and abandoned six months later, Moll Flanders' drive
to find and hold on to a secure place in society propels her through
incest, adultery, bigamy, prostitution and a resourceful career as a
thief ('the greatest Artist of my time') before her crimes catche up
with her, and she is transported to the colony of Virginia in the New
World. If Moll Flanders is on one level a Puritan's tale of sin and
repentance, through self-made, self-reliant Moll, Daniel Defoe's rich
subtext conveys all the paradoxes and amoralities of the struggle for
property and power in the newly individualistic society of
Eighteenth-century England.
Based on the first edition of 1722,
this volume includes a chronology, suggestions for further reading,
notes on currency and maps of London and Virginia in the late
seventeenth century.
Daniel Defoe (1660-1731) had a variety of
careers including merchant, soldier, spy, and political pamphleteer.
Over the course of his life Daniel Defoe wrote over two hundred and
fifty books on economics, history, biography and crime, but is best
remembered for the fiction he produced in late life, which includes Robinson Crusoe (1719), Moll Flanders (1722) and Roxana
(1724). Defoe had a great influence on the development of the English
novel and many consider him to be the first true novelist.
Produktnummer | 97801404331351 |
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EAN | 9780140433135 |
Verlag | Penguin |
Autor | Blewett, David |
Produktform | Softcover |
Sprachen | Englisch |
Maße | Breite 128 mm x Höhe 24 mm |
Gewicht | 0.329 kg |