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by Daniel Defoe (Author), G. A. Starr (Editor) "MY True Name is so well known in the Records, or Registers at Newgate, and in the Old-Baily, and there are some things of such..." (more)
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  • Paperback: 432 pages
  • Publisher: Oxford Paperbacks; New edition edition (5 Mar 1998)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0192834037
  • ISBN-13: 978-0192834034
  • Product Dimensions: 19.2 x 12.8 x 1.8 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 3.9 out of 5 stars See all reviews (8 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 167,280 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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"A very helpful edition of Moll Flanders with its informative introduction and especially its thorough endnotes. It is an edition especially helpful for undergraduates who do not have such a broad knowledge of the 18th century laws, social problems, etc."--Judith B. Slagle. Carson-Newman College
"Excellent edition has all of the necessary 'extras': introduction and notes, both reflecting excellent scholarship."--Arline Garbarini, Dominican College


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Moll Flanders recounts the story of her extraordinary life, from her birth in Newgate prison to her declining years in married prosperity. After being seduced in the home of her adoptive family she lives off her wits and her beauty, as a whore, 'five times a Wife', and a thief, and is eventually transported to Virginia for her crimes. Rich and penitent, Moll reflects on a world that is both good and evil, just as the reader both abhors and admires her. Arguably the first English novel, Moll Flanders is also a romance, its heroine in perpetual search for a lost familial paradise.

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MY True Name is so well known in the Records, or Registers at Newgate, and in the Old-Baily, and there are some things of such Consequence still depending there, relating to my particular Conduct, that it is not to be expected I should set my Name, or the Account of my Family to this Work; perhaps, after my Death it may be better known, at present it would not be proper, no, not tho' a general Pardon should be issued, even without Exceptions and reserve of Persons or Crimes. Read the first page
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7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Give me not Poverty, lest I steal, 11 Sep 2005
By Luc REYNAERT (Beernem, Belgium) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Moll Flanders (Paperback)
This human portrait of a woman is also an excellent sketch of the living conditions and the social stratification in England in the 18th century: 'the Age is so wicked and the Sex so Debauch'd'.
It shows the immense chasm between a small class of wealthy people and the rest (Swift: a thousand to one). The latter were struggling for sheer survival and praying 'Give me not Poverty, lest I steal' ... to be hanged: 'If I swing by the String, I shall hear the Bell ring, and then there's an End of poor Jenny.'

But both classes intermingled.
As E.J. Burford quotes in his masterful book 'The Synfull Citie':
Those who were riche were hangid by the Pursse
Those who were poore were hangid by the Necke

Defoe's Moll Flanders: 'the passive Jade thinks of no Pleasure but the Money; and when he is as it were drunk in the Extasies of his wicked Pleasure, her Hands are in his Pockets.'

Defoe paints the poor's religion as fatalism. Moll Flanders is all the time reproaching herself her Course of life, 'a horrid Complication of Wickedness, Whoredom, Adultery, Incest, Lying, Theft', but in the face of death at the gallows, 'I had now neither Remorse or Repentance ... no Thought of Heaven or Hell ... I neither had a Heart to ask God's Mercy.'

Defoe's work is eminently modern, with his psychological insight 'What a Felicity is it to Mankind that they cannot see into the Hearts of one another', and 'Modest men are better Hypocrites';
or, the ravages of alcoholism: 'the Drunk are the Men whom Solomon says, they go like an Ox to the Slaughter, till a Dart strikes through their Liver';
and his feminism: 'the Disadvantage of the Women is a terrible Scandal upon Men', and 'Money only made a Woman agreeable.'

Defoe's appeal to the reader - 'every Branch of my Story may be useful to honest People' - seems to be a smokescreen to circumvent censorship, because ultimately Moll Flanders prospers. This book is a perfect illustration of Bernard
Mandeville's 'Triumph of Private Vices' in his 'Fable of the Bees'.

Although some developments in this story are rather improbable, this superbly ironic and lively text constitutes an immortal portrait of the 'horrid Complication' to be a woman, here personified in Moll Flanders.
Not to be missed.

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12 of 13 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars A great adventurous, historical account of a life., 28 Sep 2005
By R. Britain "richardbrit" (Thailand) - See all my reviews
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Having avoided watching various TV adaptations and never reading the book before, I was hesitant to read this book. Whilst working abroad the book was a last option on the book shop shelf. I was very much wrong in my assumption regarding the book. It is a marvelous account of live at the rough end during the 17th century. The story moves between London and Virginia and steps from one drama to the next throughout. I was captivated throughout by the trials and tribulations of Moll and her many aborted marriages and criminal capers. I was torn between feeling sympathy for Moll and being incredulous at just how many scrapes one woman could get into and escape from. As stated by others this is also a great account of live during Molls time and also of traditions, morals and customs of the time. I now almost regret not making time for the TV adaptation, although I'm sure it would not have been as good.
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13 of 17 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Superb! This book exceeded all of my expectations!, 29 Jan 1998
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I had known of this book for years, but never picked it up because of what I thought that I knew about DeFoe's writing. The day I did, however, I was shocked to find a timely, vivid, and extremely compelling novel.
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2.0 out of 5 stars Immortal Herione
First real novel? One heck of a chapter to an immortal herione. Defoe a scholar indeed, but today a tired read.
Published on 20 Jul 2005 by Mark Dickens

3.0 out of 5 stars A lesson for those willing to read it
Moll Flanders: 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... Read more
Published on 30 Jun 2004 by legere_delibo

4.0 out of 5 stars A classical great
Everyone knows Daniel Defoe wrote Robinson Crusoe, not all have read the novel which I find his best work, Moll Flanders. Read more
Published on 1 Jun 2002

3.0 out of 5 stars Disappointing
As with his "Journal of the Plague Year" Defoe picks some fairly salacious material for his subject matter. Sadly it doesn't really cut the mustard for me. Read more
Published on 1 April 2001 by Mrs. K. A. Wheatley

4.0 out of 5 stars Excellent Read
Having watched the controversal TV series, I felt I had to read the book- and I was not disappointed. This was a leess conventional classic read. Read more
Published on 31 Jul 2000

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