Fortunes and Misfortunes of the Famous Moll Flanders : (Aberdeen Classics Collection)

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Daniel Defoe, Aberdeen Press: Fortunes and Misfortunes of the Famous Moll Flanders : (Aberdeen Classics Collection) (2020, Independently Published)

English language

Published Nov. 20, 2020 by Independently Published.

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979-8-6719-3522-6
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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.

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