| Moll Flanders Contributor(s): Defoe, Daniel (Author), Maynadier, G. H. (Introduction by) |
|
 |
ISBN: 1417908149 ISBN-13: 9781417908141 Publisher: Kessinger Publishing OUR PRICE: $43.65 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: March 2005 Annotation: 1903. English novelist, pamphleteer, and journalist, Defoe is best remembered for his novel Robinson Crusoe, a story of a man shipwrecked alone on an island. Along with Samuel Richardson, Defoe is considered the founder of the English novel. He is also the only man to be pilloried to go on to become a national hero. Defoe's choice of a female protagonist in Moll Flanders reflected his interest in the female experience. Moll is born in Newgate, where her mother is under sentence of death for theft. Her sentence is commuted to transportation to Virginia. The abandoned child is educated by a gentlewoman. Moll suffers romantic disillusionment, when she is ruined at the hands of a cynical male seducer. She becomes a whore and a thief, but finally she gains the status of a gentlewoman through the spoils of a successful colonial plantation. See other titles by this author available from Kessinger Publishing. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Classics - Fiction | Literary - Fiction | Historical - General |
| Dewey: FIC |
| Lexile Measure: 1390 |
| Physical Information: 1.3" H x 6" W x 9" (1.86 lbs) 584 pages |
| Accelerated Reader Info |
| Quiz #: 69794 Reading Level: 12.1 Interest Level: Upper Grades Point Value: 31.0 |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work. |