Roxana

Author : Daniel Defoe,John Mullan

Paperback

Published : Thursday 10 July 2008

ISBN : 9780199536740

Price : €11.69

Description

Roxana (1724), Defoes last and darkest novel, is the autobiography of a woman who has traded her virtue, at first for survival, and then for fame and fortune. Its narrator tells the story of her own `wicked life as the mistress of rich and powerful men. The novels drama lies not in the heroines `vast variety of fortunes, but in her attempts to understand the sometimes bitter lessons of her life as a `Fortunate Mistress. Defoes achievement was to invent, in `Roxana, a gripping story-teller as well as a gripping story.This new edition features a new introduction, detailed notes, textual history, and map of contemporary London.

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