num_pages: 398
description: Moll Flanders recounts the story of her extraordinary life, from her birth in Newgate prison to her declining years in married prosperity. After being seduced in the home of her adoptive family she lives off her wits and her beauty, as a whore, 'five times a Wife', and a thief, and is eventually transported to Virginia for her crimes. Rich and penitent, Moll reflects on a world that is both good and evil, just as the reader both abhors and admires her. Arguably the first English novel, Moll Flanders is also a romance, its heroine in perpetual search for a lost familial paradise.
language: English
title: The Fortunes and Misfortunes of the Famous Moll Flanders
titlecomplete: The Fortunes and Misfortunes of the Famous Moll Flanders
characters: Moll Flanders
genres: Fiction, Historical, English Literature, British Literature, Classic Literature, Literature, 18th Century, Classics, Novels, Historical Fiction
ratings_count: 45554
places: Newgate Prison, London, England, Georgia, Bath, Somerset, England, London, England, Virginia
publisher: Oxford university press