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by Daniel Defoe; Introduction by David Blewett

Moll Flanders is born in Newgate prison and abandoned six months later. Her drive to find a secure place in society propels her through incest, adultery, bigamy, prostitution, and a resourceful career as a thief, before she is returned to Newgate.


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‘I grew as impudent a Thief, and as dexterous as ever Moll Cut-Purse was’

Born and abandoned in Newgate Prison, Moll Flanders is forced to make her own way in life.  She duly embarks on a career that includes husband-hunting, incest, bigamy, prostitution and pick-pocketing, until her crimes eventually catch up with her. One of the earliest and most vivid female narrators in the history of the English novel, Moll recounts her adventures with irresistible wit and candour—and enough guile that the reader is left uncertain whether she is ultimately a redeemed sinner or a successful opportunist.

Based on the first edition of 1722, this volume includes a chronology, notes on currency and maps of London and Virginia in the late seventeenth century.

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  • Title Moll Flanders: The Fortunes and Misfortunes of the Famous Moll Flanders
  • Author Daniel Defoe; Introduction by David Blewett
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition [ Edition: Repri
  • Pages 480
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Penguin Group, London
  • Date October 3, 1989
  • Features Bibliography, Maps
  • ISBN 9780140433135 / 0140433139
  • Weight 0.73 lbs (0.33 kg)
  • Dimensions 7.82 x 5.1 x 0.86 in (19.86 x 12.95 x 2.18 cm)
  • Ages 18 to UP years
  • Grade levels 13 - UP
  • Reading level 1390
  • Themes
    • Chronological Period: 17th Century
    • Cultural Region: British
  • Library of Congress subjects Virginia, London (England)
  • Dewey Decimal Code FIC

About the author

Daniel Defoe was born Daniel Foe in London in 1660. It was perhaps ineveitable that Defoe, an outspoken man, would become a political journalist. As a Puritan he believed God had given him a mission to print the truth, that is, to proselytize on religion and politics, and he became a prolific pamphleteer satirizing the hypocrisies of both Church and State. Defoe admired William III, and his poemThe True-Born Englishman (1701) won him the King's friendship. But an ill-timed satire on High Church extremists, The Shortest Way with the Dissenters, published during Queen Anne's reign, resulted in his being pilloried and imprisoned for seditious libel in 1703.

At fifty-nine Defoe turned to fiction, completing The Life and Strange Surprising Adventures of Robinson Crusoe(1719), partly based on the saga of Alexander Selkirk, a Scottish sailor; Moll Flanders (1722); Colonel Jack (1722);A Journal of the Plague Years (1722); and Roxana or the Fortunate Mistress (1724).

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