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The Fortunes and Misfortunes of the Famous Moll Flanders — Daniel Defoe

The Fortunes and Misfortunes of the Famous Moll Flanders

Daniel Defoe

  • Novel
  • Book language: English
  • 293 pages

A picaresque novel in the form of a fictional autobiography, Defoe's Moll Flanders follows a woman's turbulent life through hardship, marriages, crime, and travel. It offers a vivid, unsentimental portrait of survival and moral reckoning in the early 18th century.

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Opening of the book

The Fortunes and
Misfortunes of the
Famous Moll Flanders,
&c.
Who was Born in Newgate, and during a Life of
continu’d Variety for Threescore Years, besides her
Childhood, was Twelve Year a Whore, five times a Wife
(whereof once to her own Brother), Twelve Year a
Thief, Eight Year a Transported Felon in Virginia, at last
grew Rich, liv’d Honest, and dies a Penitent. Written
from her own Memorandums . . .
by Daniel Defoe

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Contents

  1. The Fortunes and Misfortunes of the Famous Moll Flanders, &c.
  2. THE AUTHOR’S PREFACE
  3. MOLL FLANDERS
  4. THE FULL PROJECT GUTENBERG™ LICENSE

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