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Moll Flanders

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Publishing Details

Full Title:

Moll Flanders

Contributors:

By (Author) Daniel Defoe
Introduction by Virginia Woolf

ISBN:

9780375760105

Publisher:

Random House USA Inc

Imprint:

Modern Library Inc

Publication Date:

15th June 2002

Country:

United States

Classifications

Readership:

Tertiary Education

Genre:
Fiction/Non-fiction:

Fiction

Main Subject:
Dewey:

823.5

Physical Properties

Physical Format:

Paperback

Number of Pages:

368

Dimensions:

Width 132mm, Height 202mm, Spine 20mm

Weight:

295g

Description

Written in a time when criminal biographies enjoyed great success, Daniel Defoes 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 Defoes 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.

Reviews

Defoes excellence it is, to make me forget my specific class, character, and circumstances, and to raise me while I read him, into the universal man. Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Author Bio

Virginia Woolf (18821941) was a novelist, critic, and essayist whose works include such classics as A Room of Ones Own, Mrs. Dalloway, To the Lighthouse, and The Voyage Out (the latter available from the Modern Library in both cloth and paper).

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