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Popular penguin classics
MOLL FLANDERS
COMPLETE AND UNABRIDGED
In his story of a woman born and bred in the
murky stews of seventeenth-century London, Defoe
created an immortal heroine and one of the
sharpest portraits ever of howa society worked
- from a woman's point of view.
Abandoned at six months old, Moll has no option but
to use her considerable wit and looks to make her way
in a world where no mercy is given to the
unadaptable. As a woman her options are limited and
Moll embarks on a rollicking career of incest, bigamy
and crime. Five times married, a whore and a thief,
her business is survival - and survive she does, both a
prisoner and manipulator of her circumstances, whose
timely spiritual regeneration in prison is, she tells us,
'the best part of the story'.
Readers must decide for themselves. Tough,
resourceful, indisputably feminine, Moll's voice
speaks to us across the centuries with
shocking familiarity.