Moll Flanders by Daniel Defoe

ISBN: 9780007368563 / 0007368569 - Moll Flanders by Daniel Defoe. Published by Collins Classics, 2010. Softcover. Used, Very Good condition. 324 pp.

First published in 1722. It purports to be the true account of the life of the eponymous Moll, detailing her exploits from birth until old age.

By 1721, Defoe had become a recognized novelist, with the success of Robinson Crusoe in 1719. His political work was tapering off at this point, due to the fall of both Whig and Tory party leaders with whom he had been associated (Robert Walpole was beginning his rise). Defoe was never fully at home with the Walpole group. Defoe's Whig views are nevertheless evident in the story of Moll.

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