Moll Flanders - Couverture rigide

Defoe, Daniel

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 1857150325 ISBN 13 : 9781857150322

Editeur : Everyman, 1991

Synopsis

Born in Newgate prison and abandoned six months later, Moll's 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 ('the greatest Artist of my time') before she is apprehended and returned to Newgate.
If Moll Flanders is on one level a Puritan's tale of sin and repentance, through self-made, self-reliant Moll its rich subtext conveys all the paradoxes and amoralities of the struggle for property and power in Defoe's newly individualistic society.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

Daniel Defoe was born in London in 1660. He worked briefly as a hosiery merchant, then as an intelligence agent and political writer. His writings resulted in his imprisonment on several occasions, and earned him powerful friends and enemies. During his lifetime Defoe wrote over two hundred and fifty books, pamphlets and journals and travelled widely in both Europe and the British Isles. Among his most famous works are Robinson Crusoe (1719), Moll Flanders (1722) and A Journal of the Plague Year (1722). Though Defoe was nearly sixty before he began writing fiction, his work is so fundamental to the development of the novel that he is often cited as the first true English novelist. He is also regarded as a founding father of modern journalism and one of the earliest travel writers. Daniel Defoe died in April 1731.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Everyman
• Date d'édition: 1991
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1857150325
• ISBN 13: 9781857150322
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 296
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• Personne responsable: non disponible