Not necessarily an easy read, but a fascinating, sad and rather tragic story. Written as Moll Flander's autobiography, it was originally published anonymously with Dafoe only being linked to the novel after his death.
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| Primary Genre | Classic fiction: general and literary |
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Moll Flanders was born in Newate Prison, she was self-sufficient, intelligent and practical female protagonist. Daniel Defoe's novel "Moll Flanders" was first published in the year 1722. This work shows us the life of a courageous Moll, starting from her birth until her old age. Female protagonist moll has some unusual and most striking features which keeps reader's hooked. Moll always craved for stability in her life, but fate was unkind with her, which makes it the story of a survivor. As a writer who has written hundreds of books Daniel used his expertise to add details about Moll's marriages and about her ill fate. Let's read this story of a Survivor by Daniel Defoe to find out how Moll survived with her ill fate.
Moll Flanders features in the following genres: Classic fiction: general and literary, General Fiction, Fiction
Moll Flanders is available in Paperback, Ebook, CD-Audio, Hardback
Moll Flanders was written by Daniel Defoe and published by Double 9 Booksllp an imprint of Repro India Limited
Moll Flanders has 348 pages
£17.09