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Everyman's Library #0032: Moll Flanders

by Daniel Defoe

ISBN13: 9780679405481
ISBN10: 0679405488
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Moll Flanders, pickpocket and prostitute–a mercantile genius trading in the oldest human commodity–has been for the past three centuries an enduring representative of reckless vitality combined with unshakable inner virtue. Daniel Defoe manages his story with such skill that our affection for his heroine increases with each astonishing sin she commits.

Moll’s adventures–possibly taken by Defoe from the story of some real criminal he met in Newgate, who “five times a wife, twelve year a thief, eight year a transported felon, at last grew rich, lived honest and died a penitent”–is told with the directness of narrative and reality of incident in which Defoe, often called the father of the novel, has never been equaled.

Review:

“The brilliance of Moll Flanders, and of the best of Defoe’s other novels, is that they dramatize the uncertainty that goes with the opportunism, and show us a world in which, if you can make yourself, you can lose yourself too.” –from the Introduction by John Mullan

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(Book Jacket Status: Not Jacketed) Moll Flanders, pickpocket and prostitute-a mercantile genius trading in the oldest human commodity-has been for the past three centuries an enduring representative of reckless vitality combined with unshakable inner virtue. Daniel Defoe manages his story with such skill that our affection for his heroine increases with each astonishing sin she commits. Moll's adventures-possibly taken by Defoe from the story of some real criminal he met in Newgate, who "five times a wife, twelve year a thief, eight year a transported felon, at last grew rich, lived honest and died a penitent"-is told with the directness of narrative and reality of incident in which Defoe, often called the father of the novel, has never been equaled.

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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.

From the Hardcover edition.

Description:

Includes bibliographical references (p. xxvii-xxviii).

About the Author

Virginia Woolf (1882–1941) was a novelist, critic, and essayist whose works include such classics as A Room of One’s 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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ISBN:: 9780679405481
Other:: Defoe, Daniel
Publisher:: Everyman's Library
Author:: Defoe, Daniel
Location:: New York :
Subject:: General
Subject:: Literary
Subject:: Fiction
Subject:: Women
Subject:: Criminals
Subject:: Classics
Subject:: British and irish fiction (fictional works by
Subject:: England
Subject:: Adventure stories
Subject:: Picaresque literature
Subject:: Women -- England -- Fiction.
Subject:: Virginia
Subject:: London (england)
Edition Description:: Alfred A. Knopf, Inc.
Series:: Everyman's Library Classics & Contemporary Classics
Series Volume:: 0032
Publication Date:: November 1991
Binding:: Hardcover
Language:: English
Illustrations:: Yes
Pages:: 384
Dimensions:: 828x520x100 95

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