The history of the famous Moll Flanders
who was born in Newgate, and during a life of continued varieties for threescore years, was twelve years a whore, five times a wife, (once to her own brother), twelve years a thief, was eighteen times in Bridewell, forty times in other prisons, fifteen times whipt at the cart's tail, four times burned in the hand, once condemned to death, eight years transported beyond seas, and at last grew rich, lived honestly 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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LC copy eighth title in a collection with binder's title: Chap books.
With: The way to wealth / Benjamin Franklin. Gainsborough : Printed and sold by H. Mosley, 1802. Bound together subsequent to publication.
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