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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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Fiction, Social life and customs, Criminals, English Picaresque literature, English Adventure stories, Women, Children of prisoners, Prostitutes, Repentance, British, Exile (Punishment), Prostitution, Fiction in Spanish, English fiction, Classic Literature, British and irish fiction (fictional works by one author), London (england), fiction, Virginia, fiction, Criminals, fiction, Fiction, action & adventure, The fortunes and misfortunes of the famous Moll Flanders, Manners and customs, Fiction, general, History, Female offenders, Texts, Criticism and interpretation, English literature, Criminelles, Romans, nouvelles, German, Dictionaries, English language, Korean, Drama, Fortune hunters, Brigands and robbers, General, French, Scottish Chapbooks, Women adventurers, Chapbooks, Specimens, English Chapbooks, Large type books, Fiction, classics, Fiction, coming of age, Enfants de prisonniers, Britanniques, Bannissement, Prostituées, Repentir, Criminels, Femmes, Roman anglais, Children of criminals, Mœurs et coutumes, Guidebooks, Children's fiction, Women, fiction, Adventure and adventurers, fiction, Chronology, Bibliography, Children of prisoners--fiction, British--virginia--fiction, Exile (punishment)--fiction, Prostitutes--fiction, Repentance--fiction, Criminals--fiction, Women--fiction, Pr3404 .m6 2005b, 823/.5Places
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Moll Flanders
Oct 27, 2001, Quality Paperback Book Club, J'AI LU
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Moll Flanders: The Fortunes and Misfortunes of the Famous (Tor Classics)
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The Fortunes And Misfortunes of Moll Flanders
1996, Penguin Books
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Gluck Und Ungluck Der Beruhmten Moll Flanders
Feb 23, 1991, C. H. Beck Und Kiepenheuer
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"My true name is so well known in the records, or registers, at Newgate and in the Old Bailey, and there are some things of such consequence still depending there relating to my particular conduct, that it is not to be expected I should set my name or the account of my family to this work; perhaps after my death it may be better known; at present it would not be proper, no, not though a general pardon should be issued, even without exceptions of persons or crimes."
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