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Moll Flanders
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These are the true confessions of a remarkable and passionate young woman are thought to have been based on the adventures of a real prisoner in Newgate where Moll was born. ostensibly written as a warning to wrongdoers, the moral of Defoe's candid and cautionary tale is often lost in the sheer vitality of Moll - one of the supreme characters of English comic fiction. Her fortunes and misfortunes - 'twelve years a Whore, five times a Wife (once to her own brother), twelve years a Thief, eight years a transported Felon' - plunge the reader into the exciting world of the eighteenth-century low life.
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Subjects
- Fiction
- Social life and customs
- Criminals
- English Picaresque literature
- English Adventure stories
- Women
- Children of prisoners
- Prostitutes
- Repentance
- British
- Exile (Punishment)
- Prostitution