Moll Flanders (Paperback)

Moll's quest for respectability takes her to the New World, first as a wife and then as a transported felon in Virginia. Newgate Prison casts its shadow over the story, but it is here that Moll's moral regeneration takes place, leading to repentance, reunion with her husband and son, and finally worldly prosperity. In writing Moll Flanders, Defoe drew on various literary traditions and his own rich background to create a work of originality and genius. Appendices include related writings by Defoe, contemporary responses to Moll Flanders, and eighteenth-century documents on crime, prisons, and the Virginia colony.