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The Moll who steals Flanders

Advantages: It's one of the earliest English novels…
Disadvantages: … but it's not the best

Moll Flanders By Daniel Defoe The first time I read Moll Flanders I hated it so much that it took me three weeks to finish it, although it's a 400-page novel, more or less. It was a part of my course, then, and I wanted to read it before studying i ...

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For We Are All on the Wheel of Fortune

Advantages: Powerful, Insightful, Provocative, Enchanting
Disadvantages: I can't think of a single one

...is a difficult book for me to review without getting too carried away. If I could conjure up a sixth star from somewhere I really would. I first came across Moll in the form of an ITV television adaptation when I was in my late teens. I ...

Lizamabug 22.03.2008 · Read full review
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a gritty story of survival and determination

Advantages: a truly engaging heroine
Disadvantages: drags at times

Moll Flanders is shunned by society. Born in a prison in London in the 18th century, her mother has abandoned her and she never knew her father. History buffs among you will already have spotted that in Moll’s time women’s rights were not exactly flouri ...

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moll flanders

Advantages: great charecters great well detailed plot
Disadvantages: quite long

Moll Flanders, the full title is "The fortunes and misfortunes of the famous Moll Flanders who was born in Newgate, and during a life of continu'd variety for threescore years besides her childhood, was a Whore, five times a wife (whereof once to her ...

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the good, bad and the evil

Advantages: makes you wonder whatever next
Disadvantages: the more time you have the better

Moll Flanders by Daniel Defoe. 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 how a society worked – from a woman’s point of v ...

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