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 ownrother) twelve year a thief, eight year a transported felon in Virginia, at last grew rich, liv'd honest, and died a penitent
by Daniel Defoe
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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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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 ownrother) twelve year a thief, eight year a transported felon in Virginia, at last grew rich, liv'd honest, and died a penitent
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At end: "Written in the year 1683." Actually published 1722. cf. Cambridge bibliography of English literature.
Microfiche. Chicago, Ill. : Library Resources, inc., 1976. 1 sheet of microfiche : positive ; 8 x 13 cm. (Library of English literature ; LEL 12221)
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