Moll Flanders
About this book
These are the true confessions of a remarkable and passionate young woman are thought to have been based on the adventures of a real prisoner in Newgate where Moll was born. ostensibly written as a warning to wrongdoers, the moral of Defoe's candid and cautionary tale is often lost in the sheer vitality of Moll - one of the supreme characters of English comic fiction.
Her fortunes and misfortunes - 'twelve years a Whore, five times a Wife (once to her own brother), twelve years a Thief, eight years a transported Felon' - plunge the reader into the exciting world of the eighteenth-century low life.
Subjects
- bannissement
- brigands and robbers
- britanniques
- british
- british and irish fiction (fictional works by one author)
- chapbooks
- children of prisoners
- classic literature
- criminals
- criminals, fiction
- criminelles
- criticism and interpretation
- dictionaries
- drama
- enfants de prisonniers
- english adventure stories
- english chapbooks
- english fiction
- english language
- english literature
- english picaresque literature
- exile (punishment)
- female offenders
- fiction
- fiction, action & adventure
- fiction, classics
- fiction, coming of age
- fiction, general
- fiction in spanish
- fortune hunters
- french
- general
- german
- history
- korean
- large type books
- london (england), fiction
- manners and customs
- prostitutes
- prostitution
- repentance
- romans, nouvelles
- scottish chapbooks
- social life and customs
- specimens
- texts
- the fortunes and misfortunes of the famous moll flanders
- virginia, fiction
- women
- women adventurers