Moll Flanders -- Daniel Defoe

Written in a time when criminal biographies enjoyed great success, Daniel Defoe's <i>Moll Flanders</i> details the life of the irresistible Moll and her struggles through poverty and sin in search of property and power. Born in Newgate Prison to a picaresque mother, Moll propels herself through marriages, periods of success and destitution, and a trip to the New World and back, only to return to the place of her birth as a popular prostitute and brilliant thief. The story of Moll Flanders vividly illustrates Defoe's themes of social mobility and predestination, sin, redemption and reward. <p/>This Modern Library Paperback Classic is set from the 1721 edition printed by Chetwood in London, the only edition approved by Defoe.<br><br><b>Author:</b> Daniel Defoe<br><b>Publisher:</b> Penguin Random House LLC (No Starch)<br><b>Published:</b> 06/11/2002<br><b>Pages:</b> 368<br><b>Binding Type:</b> Paperback<br><b>Weight:</b> 0.60lbs<br><b>Size:</b> 8.10h x 5.20w x 0.80d<br><b>ISBN:</b> 9780375760105<br><br><b>Accelerated Reader:</b><br><b>Reading Level:</b> 12.1<br><b>Point Value:</b> 31<br><b>Interest Level:</b> Upper Grade<br><b>Quiz #/Name: </b>69794 / Moll Flanders<br><br><p><b>About the Author</b><br><b>Virginia Woolf</b> (1882-1941) was a novelist, critic, and essayist whose works include such classics as <i>A Room of One's Own</i>, <i> Mrs. Dalloway</i>, <i> To the Lighthouse</i>, and <i>The Voyage Out</i> (the latter available from the Modern Library in both cloth and paper