Moll Flanders

Name: Moll Flanders
Author: Daniel Defoe

by Daniel Defoe

Novel of woman's survival through crime and prostitution in eighteenth-century England

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Daniel Defoe

Defoe is one of the founding fathers of the English novel, combining journalistic realism with compelling narrative in Robinson Crusoe and Moll Flanders. His prose influenced virtually every subsequent novelist who valued authenticity of detail.

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