The Fortunes and Misfortunes of the Famous Moll Flanders by Daniel... 9781438574110

Daniel Defoe c1659 1731 was a fiction writer journalist pamphleteer and spy He was one of the first authors to write a novel A prolific and versatile writer he wrote more than five hundred books pamphlets and journals on various topics including politics crime religion marriage psychology and the supernatural Defoe gives his reader a classic moralistic tale of the crimes and misfortunes of Moll Flanders who was five times a wife twelve years a thief and a harlot who grew rich but died a penitent Moll goes from prostitution in the streets of London to prosperity on a Virginia plantation