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Moll Flanders
By (Author) Daniel Defoe
Introduction by Virginia Woolf
Random House USA Inc
Modern Library Inc
15th June 2002
United States
Tertiary Education
Fiction
823.5
Paperback
368
Width 132mm, Height 202mm, Spine 20mm
295g
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.
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
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).