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"As to women that do not think their own safety worth their own thought, that, impatient of their present state, run into matrimony as a horse rushes into the battle, i can say nothing to them but his, thhat they look like poeople that neture their estates in a lottery where there is a hundred thousand blanks to one prize."
Daniel Defoe's ironic tale of one woman's wicked ways.
Born in i\ewgate prison, tne
daughter of a woman subsequent-
ly transported to Virginia for theft,
Moll Flanders (as she calls herself
in later life) enjoys a respectable
upbringing in Colchester and
• - •• .•:• '
looks set for a humble but model
life. But when a son of the house
seduces her, she embarks on the
wayward career she describes in
these pages, adventuring from
man to man and deceit to deceit
till at length she takes up crime. At
first it pays, as she thieves her way
around 18th century London. But
when Moll is caught she finds
herself, like her mother before
her, in Newgate,...
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Fülszöveg
"As to women that do not think their own safety worth their own thought, that, impatient of their present state, run into matrimony as a horse rushes into the battle, i can say nothing to them but his, thhat they look like poeople that neture their estates in a lottery where there is a hundred thousand blanks to one prize."
Daniel Defoe's ironic tale of one woman's wicked ways.
Born in i\ewgate prison, tne
daughter of a woman subsequent-
ly transported to Virginia for theft,
Moll Flanders (as she calls herself
in later life) enjoys a respectable
upbringing in Colchester and
• - •• .•:• '
looks set for a humble but model
life. But when a son of the house
seduces her, she embarks on the
wayward career she describes in
these pages, adventuring from
man to man and deceit to deceit
till at length she takes up crime. At
first it pays, as she thieves her way
around 18th century London. But
when Moll is caught she finds
herself, like her mother before
her, in Newgate, fearing a death
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The richly ironic tale of a liar,
polygamist and thief, Moll
Flanders is Defoe's most wicked
narrative, and his heroine an
unforgettable shape-shifter as she
re-invents herself to suit every
new opportunity.
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