The fortunes and misfortunes of the famous Moll Flanders, &c ...

Author(s)

• Defoe, Daniel
• Starr, Chester G.

Bibliographic Information

The fortunes and misfortunes of the famous Moll Flanders, &c ...

Daniel Defoe ; edited with an introduction by G.A. Starr

（The world's classics）

Oxford University Press, 1981

Note

Bibliography: p. [xxx]-xxxii

Description and Table of Contents

Description

First published in 1722, MOLL FLANDERS is called the first social novel in English. It is the tale of the unfortunate Moll Flanders, forced into a life of prostitution and crime until fate bestows fortune upon her. Racy, ironic, rich in realistic sociological detail, it is also a tale of romance, with Moll in quest of a familial paradise where she can reside at its charmed center.

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Details

• NCID: BA04603566
• ISBN:
  • 0192815709
• Country Code: uk
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: Oxford ; New York
• Pages/Volumes: xxxiv, 398 p.
• Size: 19 cm
• Classification:
  • LCC : PR3404.M6
  • DC19 : 823/.5
• Subject Headings:
  • PRECIS : Fiction in English, 1702-1745 - Texts
• Parent Bibliography ID:
  • BA00232564