Goodreads: 3.52/5
For nearly three centuries the titualr heroine of Daniel Defoe’s Moll Flanders has stood as one of the most reckless, resilient, and adaptive characters to ever have graced the page. Combining an unshakeable sense of self-worth and fierce social ambition, Moll Flanders wins readers’ affections with each calculated and shocking sin she commits.
The various roles which Moll inhabits-wife, mother, pickpocket, prostitute-were possibly lifted from the life of a woman Defoe met in Newgate prison who was “five times a wife, twelve year a theif, eight year a transported felon.,” and who “at last grew rich, lived honest and died a penitent.”
Note: There is some wear and tear along the edges of the cover.
Goodreads: 3.52/5
For nearly three centuries the titualr heroine of Daniel Defoe’s Moll Flanders has stood as one of the most reckless, resilient, and adaptive characters to ever have graced the page. Combining an unshakeable sense of self-worth and fierce social ambition, Moll Flanders wins readers’ affections with each calculated and shocking sin she commits.
The various roles which Moll inhabits-wife, mother, pickpocket, prostitute-were possibly lifted from the life of a woman Defoe met in Newgate prison who was “five times a wife, twelve year a theif, eight year a transported felon.,” and who “at last grew rich, lived honest and died a penitent.”
Note: There is some wear and tear along the edges of the cover.
ISBN: 9780307291547
