Moll Flanders (Barnes & Noble Classics Series) - Softcover

Daniel Defoe; Introduction By Michael Seidel

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9781593082161: Moll Flanders (Barnes & Noble Classics Series)

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ISBN 10: 1593082169 ISBN 13: 9781593082161

Publisher: Barnes & Noble, 2005

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"A very helpful edition of Moll Flanders with its informative introduction and especially its thorough endnotes. It is an edition especially helpful for undergraduates who do not have such a broad knowledge of the 18th century laws, social problems, etc."--Judith B. Slagle. Carson-Newman College
"Excellent edition has all of the necessary 'extras': introduction and notes, both reflecting excellent scholarship." --Arline Garbarini, Dominican College

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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.

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