Moll Flanders
by Defoe, Daniel (ed. & notes, W. H. Davies; illus. Martin Travers)
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- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very good, missing d/j, Abbey Classics edition, blue boards good (spine rubbed and one crease); green pastedowns, text block fir
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About This Item
London: Simpkin Marshall, n.d. (?1960). reprint. hardback. Very good, missing d/j, Abbey Classics edition, blue boards good (spine rubbed and one crease); green pastedowns, text block firm, pages unmarked and crisp; a little tanned, otherwise clean.. 18mo (170 x 100 / 6_"" x 4""). Twelve Year a Whore, fives times a Wife (whereof once to her own Brother), Twelve Year a Thief, Eight Year a Transported Felon in Virginia, at last grew Rich, liv'd Honest, and died a Penitent'So the title page of this extraordinary novel describes the career of the woman known as Moll Flanders, whose real name we never discover. And so, in a tour-de-force of writing by the businessman, political satirist, and spy Daniel Defoe, Moll tells her own story, a vivid and racy tale of a woman's experience in the seamy side of life in late seventeenth- and early eighteenth-century England and America. Born in Newgate prison, and seduced in the home of her adoptive family, she learns tolive off her wits, defying the traditional depiction of women as helpless victims. First published in 1722, and one of the earliest novels in the English language, its account of opportunism, endurance, and survival speaks as strongly to us today as it did to its original readers.
Synopsis
The Fortunes and Misfortunes of the Famous Moll Flanders (commonly known as simply "Moll Flanders") is a novel written by Daniel Defoe in 1722. Defoe wrote this after his work as a journalist and pamphleteer. By 1722, Defoe had become recognised as a novelist, with the success of Robinson Crusoe in 1719.
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- Inklings & Yarnspinners (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- IYC106187
- Title
- Moll Flanders
- Author
- Defoe, Daniel (ed. & notes, W. H. Davies; illus. Martin Travers)
- Format/Binding
- Hardback
- Book Condition
- Used - Very good, missing d/j, Abbey Classics edition, blue boards good (spine rubbed and one crease); green pastedowns, text block fir
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- reprint
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Simpkin Marshall
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- n.d. (?1960)
- Pages
- 300
- Size
- 18mo (170 x 100 / 6_\"\" x 4\"\"
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- fiction, pocket, Defoe, WHDavies
- Bookseller catalogs
- 2nd-hand books;
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