Moll Flanders
Language: English
16th to 18th century fiction Action & Adventure Adventure Fiction British British - Virginia British - Virginia - Fiction. Children of prisoners Children of prisoners - Fiction. Classic fiction (pre c 1945) Classics Criminals Criticism Fiction Fiction: General General & Literary Fiction Literary Literature: Classics London (England) Picaresque literature Prostitutes Repentance Virginia Women Women - England Women - England - Fiction. england
Publisher: Modern Library
Published: May 15, 2002
Description:
Written in a time when criminal biographies enjoyed great success, Daniel Defoe’s Moll Flanders details the life of the irresistible Moll and her struggles through poverty and sin in search of property and power. Born in Newgate Prison to a picaresque mother, Moll propels herself through marriages, periods of success and destitution, and a trip to the New World and back, only to return to the place of her birth as a popular prostitute and brilliant thief. The story of Moll Flanders vividly illustrates Defoe’s themes of social mobility and predestination, sin, redemption and reward. This Modern Library Paperback Classic is set from the 1721 edition printed by Chetwood in London, the only edition approved by Defoe.