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Moll Flanders by Daniel Defoe (CD-Audio, 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.

Place of Publication
Old Saybrook, Ct
Running Time
840
Narrator(s)
Davina Porter
Author Biography
Daniel Defoe (1660-1731), English novelist, pamphleteer, and journalist, is considered the founder of the English novel and is most famous as the author of Robinson Crusoe . Davina Porter has over twenty years' experience narrating books. She has won several awards for excellence in recording, including two Audie Awards, and she was one of three AudioFile Golden Voices in 2002 and 2003. She has also been named one of AudioFile's 50 Best Voices of the Last Century.
Out-Of-Print Date
17/04/2017
Date of Publication
26/07/2010
Subject
General & Literary Fiction
Edition Statement
Unabridged Edition
Imprint
Tantor Media, Inc
Country of Publication
United States

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