Moll Flanders de Daniel Defoe

Moll Flanders

Daniel Defoe

The original salacious story of a bad girl who makes good.

These are the fortunes and misfortunes of Moll Flanders: born in Newgate Prison, twelve years a prostitute, five times a wife (once to her own brother), twelve years a thief and eight years a transported felon in Her Majesty's Colony of Virginia. Daniel Defoe's rollicking tale presents life in the prisons, alleyways and underworlds of eighteenth-century London, and gives us Moll — scandalous, unscrupulous and utterly irresistible.

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"The tale is the more compelling because Moll is looking back ruefully on her misadventures in older age, examining her own motives with withering candour."
— Guardian
"The tale is the more compelling because (Moll) is looking back ruefully on her misadventures in older age, examining her own motives with withering candour" Guardian "It's still fresh, centuries on. It's raunchy yet humane, brilliantly written yet not at the expense of a fast-paced plot, and it conjures such a vivid picture of its age that it would certainly transport me off the monotony of a desert island.I've always loved Moll herself she's so feisty. All the dreadful things that befall her and she just picks herself up, dusts herself down, rearranges her cleavage and rampages off again." -- Freya North Daily Mail "Bold, beautiful and brilliantly resourceful, Moll was ideally qualified to be the heroine of one of the first English novels... Defoe conveys very forcefully that wit, courage and enterprise are valuable attributes for a woman" Guardian "Enduringly colourful" The Times "The raciest of memoirs" The Times

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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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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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