Oroonoko or, The Royal Slave
by Aphra Behn
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Aphra Behn was one of the first professional English female writers and Oroonoko was one of her earliest works. It is the love story between Oroonoko, the grandson of an African king, and the daughter of that king's general. The king takes the girl into his harem, and when she plans to escape with his grandson, sells her as a slave. When Oroonoko tries to follow her he is caught by an English slave trader and taken to the same West Indian island as his love.
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Classic Literature, Fiction, History, Princes, Slave trade, Slave trade in literature, Slavery, Slavery in literature, Slaves, Sources, open_syllabus_project, Criticism and interpretation, British and irish fiction (fictional works by one author), Fiction, historical, Slaves, fiction, Caribbean area, fiction, Africa, fiction, Fiction, general, Readers, Behn, aphra , 1640-1689, Slaves--suriname--fiction, Slave trade--history--sources, Slaves--fiction, Slave trade--fiction, Princes--fiction, Pr3317 .o7 1997, 823/.4, Critique et interprétation, Esclavage, Histoire, Dans la littérature, Oroonoko (Behn, Aphra)People
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Oroonoko Or The Royal Slave
June 30, 2004, Kessinger Publishing
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Oroonoko (Bedford Cultural Edition)
September 1999, St. Martin's Press
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Oroonoko: an authoritative text, historical backgrounds, criticism
1997, W.W. Norton
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Oroonoko, or, The royal slave: a critical edition
1987, University Press of America
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Oroonoko, or, The royal slave: a true history
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"I do not pretend, in giving you the history of this Royal Slave, to entertain my reader with adventures of a feigned hero, whose life and fortunes fancy may manage at the poet's pleasure; nor in relating the truth, design to adorn it with any accidents but such as arrived in earnest to him: and it shall come simply into the world, recommended by its own proper merits and natural intrigues; there being enough of reality to support it, and to render it diverting, without the addition of invention."
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