num_pages: 130
description: This book is an edited text of Oroonoko , a seventeenth-century novel of love, passion, and the struggle for human dignity written by England's most eminent woman playwright, poet, and novelist of the day. The novel tells the story of a great African warrior who falls victim to treachery. As a result, he finds himself a slave in what is now Dutch Guinea. As an emancipation novel, the work gives insight into slave practices in both Africa and the New World Colonies.
language: English
title: Aphra Behn
titlecomplete: Aphra Behn
characters: Imoinda, Oroonoko
genres: Fiction, Historical, 17th Century, School, Literature, Read For School, Classics, Novels, Historical Fiction, Africa
ratings_count: 14073
places: Suriname
publisher: University Press Of America