The Fortunes and Misfortunes of the Famous Moll Flanders

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Penguin UK, Jun 26, 2003 - Fiction - 480 pages
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Born in Newgate prison and abandoned six months later, Moll's drive to find and hold on to a secure place in society propels her through incest, adultery, bigamy, prostitution and a resourceful career as a thief ('the greatest Artist of my time') before she is apprehended and returned to Newgate.
If Moll Flanders is on one level a Puritan's tale of sin and repentance, through self-made, self-reliant Moll its rich subtext conveys all the paradoxes and amoralities of the struggle for property and power in Defoe's newly individualistic society.

 

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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
A NOTE ON THE TEXT
London in the late seventeenth century
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About the author (2003)

Daniel Defoe was born in London in 1660. He was a successful hosiery merchant. He served as a secret agent for William III and single-handedly produced the review, a pro-government newspaper. He turned to fiction late in life and published his firstimaginative work 'Robinson Crusoe' in 1719. Defoe had a great influence on the development of the English novel and many consider him to be the first true novelist.
David Blewett is Professor of English at Mcmaster University in Hamilton, Ontario.

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TitleThe Fortunes and Misfortunes of the Famous Moll Flanders
Penguin classics
AuthorDaniel Defoe
EditorDavid Blewett
PublisherPenguin UK, 2003
ISBN0141908157, 9780141908151
Length480 pages
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