Moll FlandersMoll Flanders is, according to Virginia Woolf, one of "the few English novels which we can call indisputably great". From her birth in Newgate Prison to her ascent to a position of wealth and stature, Moll Flanders demonstrates both a mercantile spirit and an indomitable will. This vivid saga of an irresistible and notorious heroine -- her high misdemeanors and delinquencies, her varied careers as a prostitute, a charming and faithful wife, a thief, and a convict -- endures today as one of the liveliest, most candid records of a woman's progress through the hypocritical labyrinth of society ever recorded. |
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