Moll Flanders

Beskrivning

Titel: (The fortunes and misfortunes of the famous) Moll Flanders
Författare: Daniel Defoe
ISBN: 1853260738
Förlag: Wordsworth
Utgivningsår: 1993
Bandtyp: Pocket
Språk: Engelska
Skick: Mycket gott skick – svag vikning av övre hörnet på främre pärmen, gulnad inlaga, inga läsveck i ryggen.

Moll Flanders follows the life of its eponymous heroine through its many vicissitudes, which include her early seduction, careers in crime and prostitution, conviction for theft and transportation to the plantations of Virginia, and her ultimate redemption and prosperity in the new World.

Daniel Defoe’s bawdy tale of a woman’s struggle for independence and redemption, Moll Flanders is edited with an introduction. 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.

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.