The Scandalous Life And Amorous Adventures Of Moll Flanders, By Daniel Defoe, Unabridged 9 Audio Cassettes, 14 Hours, Read By Nadia May [Unabridged] [Audio Cassette]

Daniel Defoe (Author), Nadia May (Narrator)

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Publication Date: 1995

"One of the earliest social novels in English, Moll Flanders purports to be the autobiography of the daughter of a woman who had been transported to Virginia for theft soon after her child's birth in Newgate Prison. The novel features one of the most lively, convincing, and delightful rogues in literature. From her birth to her final position of wealth, Moll Flanders demonstrates a spirit of industry and an indomitable will. She apprises theft, prostitution and bigamy only in terms of their profit potential, for she is propelled by an unrelenting drive to overcome her background of impoverishment. Praised by Virginia Woolf as one of the "few English novels which we can call indisputably great." Moll Flanders is a work of genius which represents an important step in the evolution of the novel." "Daniel Defore was born Daniel Foe in 1660, son of James Foe, a London tallow-chandler. (He added the more genteel "de" when he was thirty-five, the time when he began depending on writing for a living.) His father, a dissenter from the established church, intended his son for the ministry. However, after receiving his education at Newington Dissenting Academy. Daniel decided instead on a career in business. He trafficked in various goods and services, but went bankrupt in 1692. A brick-and-the business which he later owned also failed. As a Puritan Defoe believed that God had given him a mission to print the truth. And, in fact, he bacame a prolife pamphleteer satirizing the hypocrisies of both Church and State. Although his poem The True-Born Englishman (1701) won him the King's friendship, his ill-timed satire on High Church extremists, "The Shortest Way with the Dissenters," published during Queen Anne's reign, landed him in prison in 1703 for seditious libel. Released in November, 1704, Defoe bacame a secret agent for the government, working in favor of the union. He continued to write pamphlets, and it was not until he was fifty-nine years old that he......." [from case]

#outer_postBodyPS { display: none; } #psGradient { display: none; } #psPlaceHolder { display: none; } #psExpand { display: none; } "One of the earliest social novels in English, Moll Flanders purports to be the autobiography of the daughter of a woman who had been transported to Virginia for theft soon after her child's birth in Newgate Prison. The novel features one of the most lively, convincing, and delightful rogues in literature. From her birth to her final position of wealth, Moll Flanders demonstrates a spirit of industry and an indomitable will. She apprises theft, prostitution and bigamy only in terms of their profit potential, for she is propelled by an unrelenting drive to overcome her background of impoverishment. Praised by Virginia Woolf as one of the "few English novels which we can call indisputably great." Moll Flanders is a work of genius which represents an important step in the evolution of the novel." "Daniel Defore was born Daniel Foe in 1660, son of James Foe, a London tallow-chandler. (He added the more genteel "de" when he was thirty-five, the time when he began depending on writing for a living.) His father, a dissenter from the established church, intended his son for the ministry. However, after receiving his education at Newington Dissenting Academy. Daniel decided instead on a career in business. He trafficked in various goods and services, but went bankrupt in 1692. A brick-and-the business which he later owned also failed. As a Puritan Defoe believed that God had given him a mission to print the truth. And, in fact, he bacame a prolife pamphleteer satirizing the hypocrisies of both Church and State. Although his poem The True-Born Englishman (1701) won him the King's friendship, his ill-timed satire on High Church extremists, "The Shortest Way with the Dissenters," published during Queen Anne's reign, landed him in prison in 1703 for seditious libel. Released in November, 1704, Defoe bacame a secret agent for the government, working in favor of the union. He continued to write pamphlets, and it was not until he was fifty-nine years old that he......." [from case]

Product Details

Audio Cassette: 9 pages
Publisher: Blackstone Audiobooks (1995)
ASIN: B000HY6DXC

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