Moll Flanders Softcover - 2005
by Defoe, Daniel & Paul A. Scanlon
- Used
- near fine
- Paperback
One of the most appealing heroine's of English literature, Moll Flanders is born in 17th-century Newgate Prison, and is determined to face life head-on and raise herself out of abject poverty. Reissue.
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Details
- Title Moll Flanders
- Author Defoe, Daniel & Paul A. Scanlon
- Binding Softcover
- Edition [ Edition: First
- Condition Used - Near Fine
- Pages 444
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Broadview Press, Canada
- Date 2005
- Features Bibliography
- Bookseller's Inventory # 34151
- ISBN 9781551114514 / 1551114518
- Reading level 1390
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Themes
- Chronological Period: 17th Century
- Cultural Region: British
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 2005360450
- Dewey Decimal Code FIC
From the rear cover
Born to a petty thief in London's notorious Newgate prison and determined to make her way in a rapacious and materialistic society, Moll Flanders recounts the "fortunes and misfortunes" of her turbulent life in this 1722 novel. Though Moll Flanders was shaped by the conventions of criminal biography, Defoe also drew on other literary traditions and his own rich background to create a remarkably original--and still controversial--work.
In addition to a critical introduction and substantial footnotes, this Broadview edition provides a wide range of writings by Defoe as well as contemporary responses to Moll Flanders. Other appendices include a selection of eighteenth-century writings on crime, prisons, and the Virginia colony.
