Moll Flanders /
Defoe, Daniel, 1661?-1731.
Moll Flanders / Daniel Defoe ; [with an] introduction by Virginia Woolf ; notes by Audrey Bilger. - 2002 Modern Library pbk. ed. - New York : Modern Library, 2002. - xviii, 340 : map ; 21 cm. - The Modern Library classics .
Written in a time when criminal biographies enjoyed great success, Daniel Defoe’s Moll Flanders details the life of the irresistible Moll and her struggles through poverty and sin in search of property and power. Born in Newgate Prison to a picaresque mother, Moll propels herself through marriages, periods of success and destitution, and a trip to the New World and back, only to return to the place of her birth as a popular prostitute and brilliant thief. The story of Moll Flanders vividly illustrates Defoe’s themes of social mobility and predestination, sin, redemption and reward.
0375760105
2002070141
Children of prisoners--Fiction.
British--Virginia--Fiction.
Women--England--Fiction.
Prostitutes--Fiction.
Repentance--Fiction.
Criminals--Fiction.
London (England)--Fiction.
Virginia--Fiction.
Picaresque literature.
Adventure fiction.
PR3404 / .M6 2002
822.91209
Moll Flanders / Daniel Defoe ; [with an] introduction by Virginia Woolf ; notes by Audrey Bilger. - 2002 Modern Library pbk. ed. - New York : Modern Library, 2002. - xviii, 340 : map ; 21 cm. - The Modern Library classics .
Written in a time when criminal biographies enjoyed great success, Daniel Defoe’s Moll Flanders details the life of the irresistible Moll and her struggles through poverty and sin in search of property and power. Born in Newgate Prison to a picaresque mother, Moll propels herself through marriages, periods of success and destitution, and a trip to the New World and back, only to return to the place of her birth as a popular prostitute and brilliant thief. The story of Moll Flanders vividly illustrates Defoe’s themes of social mobility and predestination, sin, redemption and reward.
0375760105
2002070141
Children of prisoners--Fiction.
British--Virginia--Fiction.
Women--England--Fiction.
Prostitutes--Fiction.
Repentance--Fiction.
Criminals--Fiction.
London (England)--Fiction.
Virginia--Fiction.
Picaresque literature.
Adventure fiction.
PR3404 / .M6 2002
822.91209