Moll Flanders

en Limba Engleză Paperback – 4 feb 2019

First published in 1722, Daniel Defoe's "Moll Flanders" is the classic and tragic morality tale of its title character. Based in part on the true story of a female criminal that Defoe met in Newgate Prison, Moll Flanders is the daughter of a convict and is driven by a singular ambition, to raise her station in life, by any means necessary. In the process of trying to lift herself out of squalor and become a lady she is married several times, abandons her many children, and eventually resorts to thievery and prostitution in her constant quest for a better life. Bad luck and poor judgment plague Moll at every turn and at one point she discovers she has inadvertently married her own half-brother. Eventually convicted of theft, Moll is transported to the new world where she finally begins to turn her life around. Moll is able to redeem herself, repair many of her fractured relationships, and finds love and a new life of prosperity in the Colonies. One of Defoe's best and most loved works, "Moll Flanders," is both the story of a fascinating and complicated woman and ultimately a tale of remorse and redemption. This edition is printed on premium acid-free paper.

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ISBN-13: 9781420960884
ISBN-10: 1420960881
Pagini: 246
Dimensiuni: 140 x 216 x 15 mm
Greutate: 0.32 kg
Editura: Digireads.com

Notă biografică

Daniel Defoe (c. 1660 - 24 April 1731), born Daniel Foe, was an English trader, writer, journalist, pamphleteer and spy. He is most famous for his novel Robinson Crusoe, which is second only to the Bible in its number of translations. He has been seen as one of the earliest proponents of the English novel, and helped to popularise the form in Britain with others such as Aphra Behn and Samuel Richardson. Defoe wrote many political tracts and often was in trouble with the authorities, including a spell in prison. Intellectuals and political leaders paid attention to his fresh ideas and sometimes consulted with him. Defoe was a prolific and versatile writer, producing more than three hundred works-books, pamphlets, and journals-on diverse topics, including politics, crime, religion, marriage, psychology, and the supernatural. He was also a pioneer of business journalism and economic journalism. From 1719 to 1724, Defoe published the novels for which he is famous (see below). In the final decade of his life, he also wrote conduct manuals, including Religious Courtship (1722), The Complete English Tradesman (1726) and The New Family Instructor (1727). He published a number of books decrying the breakdown of the social order, such as The Great Law of Subordination Considered (1724) and Everybody's Business is Nobody's Business (1725) and works on the supernatural, like The Political History of the Devil (1726), A System of Magick (1727) and An Essay on the History and Reality of Apparitions (1727). His works on foreign travel and trade include A General History of Discoveries and Improvements (1727) and Atlas Maritimus and Commercialis (1728). Perhaps his greatest achievement with the novels is the magisterial A Tour Thro' the Whole Island of Great Britain (1724-27), which provided a panoramic survey of British trade on the eve of the Industrial Revolution.

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'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 to live 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. ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features, including expert introductions by leading authorities, helpful notes to clarify the text, up-to-date bibliographies for further study, and much more.

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Born to a petty thief in London’s notorious Newgate prison and determined to make her way in a rapacious and materialistic society, Moll Flanders recounts the “fortunes and misfortunes” of her turbulent life in this 1722 novel. Though Moll Flanders was shaped by the conventions of criminal biography, Defoe also drew on other literary traditions and his own rich background to create a remarkably original—and still controversial—work.
In addition to a critical introduction and substantial footnotes, this Broadview edition provides a wide range of writings by Defoe as well as contemporary responses to Moll Flanders. Other appendices include a selection of eighteenth-century writings on crime, prisons, and the Virginia colony.

“With this new edition of Moll Flanders, instructors are at last well-equipped to teach Defoe’s challenging and enigmatic novel. Scanlon has carefully edited and helpfully annotated the most authoritative text of Moll and supplied readers with a wealth of contemporary texts, including Defoe’s comments on women’s roles in urban life, that illuminate the complex cultural context into which Defoe launched his novel. These glimpses of Defoe’s other writings in combination with excerpts from literary contemporaries give students and general readers an unprecedentedly rich context in which to understand Moll Flanders.” — Melissa Mowry, St. John’s University, New York

Cuprins

Acknowledgements
Introduction
Daniel Defoe: A Brief Chronology
Defoe’s Times: A Brief Chronology
A Note on the Text
Moll Flanders
Appendix A: Related Writings by Defoe

From An Essay upon Projects (1697)
From the Review (19 February 1704-11 June 1713)
From Applebee’s Journal (25 June 1720-14 May 1726)
From Colonel Jack (1722)
From Roxana (1724)
From A Tour thro’ the Whole Island of Great Britain (1724-27)
From Conjugal Lewdness; Or, Matrimonial Whoredom (1727)
From An Essay on the History and Reality of Apparitions (1727)
From Street-Robberies, Consider’d [1728]

Appendix B: Related Works by Other Writers

From Hell Upon Earth (1703)
Paul Lorrain, The Ordinary of Newgate (1709)
From A Discourse and View of Virginia [1712]
From Alexander Smith, The History of the Lives, of the MostNoted Highway-Men (1714)
From The History of the Press-Yard (1717)
Jonathan Swift, The Last Speech and Dying Words of Ebenezor Elliston (1722)
From An Essay in Praise of Knavery (1723)
From T. Read, The Life and Actions of Moll Flanders [c. 1723]
From An Accurate Description of Newgate (1724)
From The Matchless Rogue (1725)

Appendix C: Defoe and Moll Flanders: Eighteenth-Century Views

From The True-Born Hugonot, &c.A Satyr (1703)
From Jonathan Swift, A Letter Concerning the Sacramental Test (1709)
From Jonathan Swift, the Examiner (16 November 1710)
From John Gay, The Present State of Wit (1711)
From Joseph Addison, The Late Trial and Conviction of Count Tariff (1713)
From Charles Gildon, Preface to The Life and Strange Surprizing Adventures of Mr. D.… De F.… (1719)
From Giles Jacob, The Poetical Register (1723)
From the Preface to An Essay in Praise of Knavery (1723)
From The Flying Post (1 March 1729)
From Alexander Pope, The Dunciad Variorum (1729)
From Richard Savage (?), An Author to be Lett (1729)
From the Grub-street Journal (29 April 1731)
From Read’s Weekly Journal (1 May 1731)
From a Conversation with Alexander Pope (1742)
From Theophilus Cibber, The Lives of the Poets (1753)
From the Monthly Review (March 1775)
From James Boswell, The Life of Samuel Johnson (1778)
From George Chalmers, The Life of Defoe (1786)
From the Monthly Review (December 1787)
From the Monthly Review (December 1790)

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