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  • Moll Flanders

    Daniel Defoe, Jan Francis

    Audio Cassette (Hodder Audio, June 1, 1996)
    Daniel Defoe's classic satire, here read by Jan Francis, tells the tale of Moll Flanders—her seductions, marriages, and liaisons, and the journey to her mother in Virginia where it becomes clear that Moll has, without realizing, married her own brother. Our resourceful heroine goes to and from America meeting highwaymen, pickpockets, and dastardly rogues in a wonderful picaresque romp that is one of the most enjoyable and enduring classic novels.
  • Moll Flanders: The Fortunes and Misfortunes of the Famous

    Daniel Defoe

    Mass Market Paperback (Tor Classics, April 15, 1999)
    Tor Classics are affordably-priced editions designed to attract the young reader. Original dynamic cover art enthusiastically represents the excitement of each story. Appropriate "reader friendly" type sizes have been chosen for each title—offering clear, accurate, and readable text. All editions are complete and unabridged, and feature Introductions and Afterwords.This edition of Moll Flanders includes a Foreword, Biographical Note, and Afterword by Nancy Springer.The conditions of Moll Flanders' birth could not have been more depressing. Her mother was a petty thief who was caught and sent to the notorious Newgate prison in London. It was in that prison that Moll was born. Deemed an orphan, Moll was later sent to apprentice as a servant with a respectable family. Moll has designs on a life better than serving others. But as she discovers, independence and fortune are not easy to come by. A string of dreadful misfortunes--including five luckless marriages--force Moll into the streets, where her only means of support is a life of crime.But Moll refuses to give up: she will succeed!Moll Flanders is a triumphant portrait of a strong-willed woman determined to make her own way in eighteenth-century England.
  • Moll Flanders

    Daniel Defoe

    Paperback (CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, Nov. 11, 2013)
    The classic book, Moll Flanders by Daniel Defoe! There's a reason why Moll Flanders is one of the best books of all time. If you haven't read this classic, then you'd better pick up a copy of Moll Flanders by Daniel Defoe today!
  • Moll Flanders

    Daniel Defoe

    Paperback (SMK Books, Dec. 28, 2009)
    Moll, which she emphasizes is not her birth name, though she never does reveal what it was, is raised until she is teenager in America by a foster mother. She then gets a job as a household servant where she is loved by both of the families sons. The oldest convinces her to "act as if they where married" in bed, but then is unwilling to marry her, and pawns her off on his younger brother. She is then widowed, and leaves her children behind to begin a new life. She pretends to be a fortuned widow to attract a man that will marry her and provide her with security.
  • Moll Flanders

    Daniel Defoe, Heather Bell

    Audio Cassette (Naxos Audio Books, Sept. 1, 1994)
    Moll Flanders, born in Newgate, led a life of continued variety for three-score years. 3 cassettes.
  • The fortunes and misfortunes of the famous Moll Flanders, &c

    Daniel Defoe

    Hardcover (Modern Library, Jan. 1, 1967)
    American and Classic Literature, Literary Studies
  • Moll Flanders

    Daniel Defoe

    Hardcover (Modern Library, Oct. 4, 1994)
    Written in a time when criminal biographies enjoyed great success, Daniel Defoe’s Moll Flanders details the life of the irresistible Moll and her struggles through poverty and sin in search of property and power. Born in Newgate Prison to a picaresque mother, Moll propels herself through marriages, periods of success and destitution, and a trip to the New World and back, only to return to the place of her birth as a popular prostitute and brilliant thief. The story of Moll Flanders vividly illustrates Defoe’s themes of social mobility and predestination, sin, redemption and reward. This Modern Library Paperback Classic is set from the 1721 edition printed by Chetwood in London, the only edition approved by Defoe.From the Trade Paperback edition.
  • Moll Flanders

    Daniel Defoe, Laural Merlington

    Audio Cassette (Unabridged Library Edition, Nov. 1, 1994)
    Moll Flanders, Defoe's 18th century classic novel, was "marketed" in its day in much the same way that a modern commercial novel might be - its title page promised the racy details of a woman's life spent in thievery and whoredom. The book is much more than this; it is a Puritan tale of sin, repentance, conversion, and redemption. It is also seen by many critics as a satirical and ironic picaresque novel with a twist (that being its female protagonist). On yet another level, it is a playful and beguiling social commentary set between the Puritan age (which saw humankind as fallen) and the Age of Reason in which humankind was seen as born innocent and good and corrupted by society. Taking center stage in this whorl of irony, humor, pathos, and religious faith is one Moll Flanders - both the most plausible sinner and the most pious repentant in English literature; arguably the most notorious heroine in the canon of fiction in the English language. She is as controversial today as when she first appeared in 1722.
  • The fortunes and misfortunes of the famous Moll Flanders ... ,

    Daniel Defoe

    Hardcover (The Hogarth Press, Jan. 1, 1931)
    The Fortunes and Misfortunes of the Famous Moll Flanders, &c. Who was Born in Newgate, and during a Life of continu'd Variety for Threescore Years, besides her Childhood, was Twelve Year a Whore, five 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. Written from her own Memorandums.
  • Moll Flanders

    Daniel Defoe, Davina Porter

    Audio CD (Tantor Audio, Sept. 14, 2010)
    One of the most determined, energetic, and lusty heroines in all of English literature, Daniel Defoe's Moll Flanders will do anything to avoid poverty. Born in Newgate Prison, she was for twelve years a whore, five times a wife (once to her own brother), twelve years a thief, and eight years a transported felon in Virginia before finally escaping from the life of immorality and wickedness imposed on her by society. She is as much a survivor and just as resourceful as Defoe's other great literary creation, Robinson Crusoe. Celebrated as "a masterpiece of characterization" by E. M. Forster, Moll Flanders is both a cunning examination of social mores and a hugely entertaining story filled with scandalous sexual and criminal adventures. In Moll, Defoe created a character of limitless interest, in spite of her unconcealed ethical shortcomings. Taking Moll through the echelons of eighteenth-century English society, Defoe seldom moralizes as he champions the personal qualities of self-reliance, perseverance, and hard work-even when it takes the form of crime.
  • Moll Flanders

    Daniel Defoe, Frances Barber

    Audio Cassette (Penguin Audio, April 1, 1996)
    Moll Flanders presents a sharply original and still relevant picture of triumph over the seamy side of the struggle for prosperity and power. A major MGM/UA movie will premiere in January 1996, starring Robin Wright, Morgan Freeman, Stockard Channing, and Brenda Fricker. 4 cassettes.
  • Moll Flanders

    Daniel Defoe, Frances Barber

    Audio Cassette (Penguin Audio, Jan. 1, 2005)
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