Daniel Defoe

Broschiertes Buch

The Fortunes and Misfortunes of the Famous Moll Flanders

Beschreibung

Born in Newgate prison and abandoned six months later, Moll Flanders' drive to find and hold on to a secure place in society propels her through incest, adultery, bigamy, prostitution and a resourceful career as a thief before her crimes catch up with her, and she is transported to the colony of Virginia.

Autor

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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Produktdetails

• Penguin Classics
• Verlag: Penguin Books UK
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 41121
• Revised
• Seitenzahl: 454
• Erscheinungstermin: 25. Mai 1989
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 196mm x 128mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 336g
• ISBN-13: 9780140433135
• ISBN-10: 0140433139
• Artikelnr.: 11929735