The fortunes and misfortunes of the famous Moll Flanders, & C. Who was born in Newgate, and during a life of continu'd variety for threescore years, besides her childhood, was Twelve year a Whore, five times a wife (whereof once to her own brother), twelve year a thief, eight year a transported felon in Virginia, at last grew rich, lived honest and died a penitent.
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TextSeries: Oxford World's ClassicsPublication details: New York Oxford University Press 1998Description: xxxiv,398pISBN: 0192834037Contained works: Starr, G.A., edSubject(s): English Literature | English Fiction | Women | England | Manners and customs | Criminals | Prostitutes | Virginia | Children of prisoners | RepentanceDDC classification: 823.6 Summary: Moll Flanders recounts the story of her extraordinary life, from her birth in Newgate prison to her declining years in married prosperity. After being seduced in the home of her adoptive family she lives off her wits and her beauty, as a whore, 'five times a wife', and a thief, and is eventually transported to Virginia for her crimes. Rich and penitent, Moll reflects on a world that is both good and evil, just as the reader both abhors and admires her. Arguably the first English novel, Moll Flanders is also a romance, its heroine in perpetual search for a lost familial paradise.
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Moll Flanders recounts the story of her extraordinary life, from her birth in Newgate prison to her declining years in married prosperity. After being seduced in the home of her adoptive family she lives off her wits and her beauty, as a whore, 'five times a wife', and a thief, and is eventually transported to Virginia for her crimes. Rich and penitent, Moll reflects on a world that is both good and evil, just as the reader both abhors and admires her. Arguably the first English novel, Moll Flanders is also a romance, its heroine in perpetual search for a lost familial paradise.
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