Oroonoko, or, The royal slave

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Oroonoko, or, The royal slave

Aphra Behn ; with an introduction by Lore Metzger

(The Norton library)

W.W. Norton, c1973

  • : pbk

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Reprint of the 1688 ed. printed for W. Canning, London

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The first woman in England to make her living by writing, Aphra Behn (1640-1689) combines memoir, exotic travel narrative, and romance to tell the story of the noble Oroonoko, a black man who begins life as a prince and ends it as a slave. The tale depicts the overthrow of a hero by a civilization that considers itself superior to him. Taken up by reformers in the long battle against the slave trade, reprinted and imitated countless times, Oroonoko remains a popular tale that introduces powerful themes onto the literary stage.

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