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Oroonoko; Or, the Royal Slave (The Norton Library, N702) Trade paperback - 1973
by Behn, Aphra
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- Title Oroonoko; Or, the Royal Slave (The Norton Library, N702)
- Author Behn, Aphra
- Binding Trade Paperback
- Edition First Edition
- Condition Used - Very Good
- Pages 78
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher W W Norton & Co Inc, New York
- Date 1973
- Bookseller's Inventory # 0306669
- ISBN 9780393007022 / 0393007022
- Weight 0.23 lbs (0.10 kg)
- Dimensions 7.68 x 5.1 x 0.35 in (19.51 x 12.95 x 0.89 cm)
- Library of Congress subjects Didactic fiction, Caribbean Area - Fiction
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 73017252
- Dewey Decimal Code 823.4
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Summary
Aphra Behn was one of the first professional English female writers and Oroonoko was one of her earliest works. It is the love story between Oroonoko, the grandson of an African king, and the daughter of that king's general. The king takes the girl into his harem, and when she plans to escape with his grandson, sells her as a slave. When Oroonoko tries to follow her he is caught by an English slave trader and taken to the same West Indian island as his love.
First line
I do not pretend, in giving you the history of this Royal Slave, to entertain my reader with adventures of a feigned hero, whose life and fortunes fancy may manage at the poet's pleasure; nor in relating the truth, design to adorn it with any accidents but such as arrived in earnest to him: and it shall come simply into the world, recommended by its own proper merits and natural intrigues; there being enough of reality to support it, and to render it diverting, without the addition of invention.