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Data and computer communications / backgrounds and sources; criticism / Daniel Defoe

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: New York : W.W. Norton & Company, Inc., c1973Edition: First EditionDescription: ix, 444 pages ; 22 cmISBN:
  • 039309412X
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • FIC .D44 1973
Contents:
The text of Moll Flanders -- Backgrounds and sources -- Eighteenth and nineteenth-century opinions of defoe and his writings -- Twentieth- century criticism of Moll Fanders.
Summary: “As Moll Flanders struggles for survival amid the harsh social realities of seventeenth-century England, there is but one thing she is determined to avoid: the deadly snare of poverty. On the twisting path that leads from her birth in Newgate Prison to her final prosperous respectability, love is regarded as worth no more than its weight in gold; and such matters as bigamy, incest, theft, and prostitution occasion but a brief blush before they are reckoned in terms of profit and loss. Yet so pure is her candor, so healthy her animal appetites, so indomitable her resiliency through every vicissitude of fortune, that this extraordinary woman emerges as one of the most appealing heroines in English literature.”
Item type: Books - Fiction
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Books - Fiction Books - Fiction National University - Manila LRC - Annex Fiction Fiction FIC .D44 1973 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) c.1 Available NULIB000003733

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The text of Moll Flanders -- Backgrounds and sources -- Eighteenth and nineteenth-century opinions of defoe and his writings -- Twentieth- century criticism of Moll Fanders.

“As Moll Flanders struggles for survival amid the harsh social realities of seventeenth-century England, there is but one thing she is determined to avoid: the deadly snare of poverty. On the twisting path that leads from her birth in Newgate Prison to her final prosperous respectability, love is regarded as worth no more than its weight in gold; and such matters as bigamy, incest, theft, and prostitution occasion but a brief blush before they are reckoned in terms of profit and loss. Yet so pure is her candor, so healthy her animal appetites, so indomitable her resiliency through every vicissitude of fortune, that this extraordinary woman emerges as one of the most appealing heroines in English literature.”

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