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- Author: Daniel Defoe
- Genre: Considered a Picaresque Novel
- Publication date: January, 1772
- Adaptations: Numerous TV and stage adaptations as well as a film in 1996
- Setting: 17th Century England, Early America
- Narration: First Person
- Character of Moll Flanders is often considered to be an early feminist
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Daniel Defoe's Moll Flanders is the story of a young woman in 17th century England. The novel's full title is The Fortunes and Misfortunes of the Famous Moll Flanders.
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Plot Synopsis
The story follows the story of the title character, Moll Flanders, a woman who is born in early America to a convict and raised by an adopted mother. As a young woman, she begins as a servant and winds up having an affair with both of the family's sons. After the eldest son refuses to marry her, she weds the younger one who dies not long into the marriage. Moll develops a talent for conning men and spends the rest of her life fooling wealthy men into thinking she is a rich widow and marrying her. She spends the next twenty years of her life in this fashion, with every relationship ending in tragedy for her male partner. In her older years, after her beauty has passed, she resorts to theft and finds herself in prison with a former love. The two escape their sentence by repenting and spend their final years together. -
Critical Reception
Moll Flanders is generally considered a classic piece of literature and was classified as "a masterpiece of characterization" by E. M. Forster. -
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Moll Flanders Adaptations
- The Following Timeline is From IMDb and Contains Pop-Ups
- 1965: Moll Flanders (Musical Comedy Movie)
- 1975: Moll Flanders (TV)
- 1995: Moll Flanders (Musical Theater)
- 1996: Moll Flanders (Movie)
- 2009: Moll Flanders (Movie In Production)
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has turned to reading to pass the hours of breastfeeding. This week's book is Moll Flanders.
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ya pedí mi Oxford Anthology! contento! ;) leyendo Moll Flanders, Beowulf, American Buffalo, encantado con A Modest Proposal, y The Jungle!
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Finished Moll Flanders by Daniel Defoe. On to The Haunted Hotel by Wilkie Collins.
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@frankiediane I originally heard it at the end of Moll Flanders (a Morgan Freeman movie) and hard it again the other night, watching Buffy!
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has turned to reading to pass the hours of breastfeeding. This week's book is Moll Flanders.
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ya pedí mi Oxford Anthology! contento! ;) leyendo Moll Flanders, Beowulf, American Buffalo, encantado con A Modest Proposal, y The Jungle!
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Finished Moll Flanders by Daniel Defoe. On to The Haunted Hotel by Wilkie Collins.
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@frankiediane I originally heard it at the end of Moll Flanders (a Morgan Freeman movie) and hard it again the other night, watching Buffy!
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has turned to reading to pass the hours of breastfeeding. This week's book is Moll Flanders.
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ya pedí mi Oxford Anthology! contento! ;) leyendo Moll Flanders, Beowulf, American Buffalo, encantado con A Modest Proposal, y The Jungle!
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Finished Moll Flanders by Daniel Defoe. On to The Haunted Hotel by Wilkie Collins.
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@frankiediane I originally heard it at the end of Moll Flanders (a Morgan Freeman movie) and hard it again the other night, watching Buffy!
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has turned to reading to pass the hours of breastfeeding. This week's book is Moll Flanders.
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ya pedí mi Oxford Anthology! contento! ;) leyendo Moll Flanders, Beowulf, American Buffalo, encantado con A Modest Proposal, y The Jungle!
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Finished Moll Flanders by Daniel Defoe. On to The Haunted Hotel by Wilkie Collins.
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@frankiediane I originally heard it at the end of Moll Flanders (a Morgan Freeman movie) and hard it again the other night, watching Buffy!
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has turned to reading to pass the hours of breastfeeding. This week's book is Moll Flanders.
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ya pedí mi Oxford Anthology! contento! ;) leyendo Moll Flanders, Beowulf, American Buffalo, encantado con A Modest Proposal, y The Jungle!
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Finished Moll Flanders by Daniel Defoe. On to The Haunted Hotel by Wilkie Collins.
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@frankiediane I originally heard it at the end of Moll Flanders (a Morgan Freeman movie) and hard it again the other night, watching Buffy!
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has turned to reading to pass the hours of breastfeeding. This week's book is Moll Flanders.
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ya pedí mi Oxford Anthology! contento! ;) leyendo Moll Flanders, Beowulf, American Buffalo, encantado con A Modest Proposal, y The Jungle!
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Finished Moll Flanders by Daniel Defoe. On to The Haunted Hotel by Wilkie Collins.
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@frankiediane I originally heard it at the end of Moll Flanders (a Morgan Freeman movie) and hard it again the other night, watching Buffy!
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