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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
