| Moll Flanders: Introduction by John Mullan Contributor(s): Defoe, Daniel (Author), Mullan, John (Introduction by) |
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ISBN: 0679405488 ISBN-13: 9780679405481 Publisher: Everyman's Library OUR PRICE: $22.50 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: November 1991 Annotation: Daniel Defoe's great picaresque novel, set amid the pageantry and license of Restoration England, has as its heroine the indomitable harlot and thief Moll Flanders. As she rises from the infamous Newgate Prison to fame, wealth, and something that might almost be respectability, Moll comes to embody all the excess and vitality of an era. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Classics - Fiction | Literary - Fiction | Historical - General |
| Dewey: FIC |
| LCCN: 91052994 |
| Lexile Measure: 1390 |
| Series: Everyman's Library Classics |
| Physical Information: 1" H x 5.2" W x 8.28" (0.95 lbs) 376 pages |
| Themes: - Chronological Period - 17th Century - Cultural Region - British Isles |
| Accelerated Reader Info |
| Quiz #: 69794 Reading Level: 12.1 Interest Level: Upper Grades Point Value: 31.0 |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: This is the spirited story of a survivor whose racy anecdotes and shady dealings only underline her essential warmth and goodness. But there is nothing sentimental about Moll, who presents herself warts and all. Though her adventures take her abroad, she remains the vivid creation of London. Moll Flanders, pickpocket and prostitute-a mercantile genius trading in the oldest human commodity-has been for the past three centuries an enduring representative of reckless vitality combined with unshakable inner virtue. Daniel Defoe manages his story with such skill that our affection for his heroine increases with each astonishing sin she commits. Moll's adventures-possibly taken by Defoe from the story of some real criminal he met in Newgate, who "five times a wife, twelve year a thief, eight year a transported felon, at last grew rich, lived honest and died a penitent"-is told with the directness of narrative and reality of incident in which Defoe, often called the father of the novel, has never been equaled. (Book Jacket Status: Not Jacketed) |