The fortunate mistress, or, Roxana
About this book
"Roxana", Defoe's last and darkest novel, is the autobiography of a woman who has traded her virtue, at first for survival, and then for fame and fortune. Its narrator tells the story of her own "wicked" life as the mistress of rich and powerful men.
Subjects
- british and irish fiction (fictional works by one author)
- england, fiction
- english historical fiction
- english picaresque literature
- europe, civilization, history
- europe, fiction
- europe -- history -- 17th century -- fiction
- fiction
- fiction, action & adventure
- fiction, historical
- fiction, historical, general
- great britain, fiction
- great britain -- history -- charles ii, 1660-1685 -- fiction
- history
- large type books
- long now manual for civilization
- mistresses
- mistresses -- fiction
- psychology
- social conditions
- women
- women -- europe -- fiction
- women -- great britain -- fiction