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| January 27, 1722 |
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| Daniel Defoe (1660 - 1731) |
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Daniel Defoe & Moll Flanders
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| by Steve King |
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On this day in 1722 Daniel Defoe's Moll Flanders was published. Defoe's title page is one of literature's longest come-hithers, and casts a wide net: "The Fortunes and Misfortunes of the Famous Moll Flanders &c who was born at Newgate, and during a Life of continued Variety for Threescore Years, besides her Childhood, was Twelve Year a Whore, five time a Wife (whereof once to her own Brother), Twelve Year a Thief, Eight Year a Transported Felon in Virginia, at last grew rich, liv'd Honest, and died a Penitent." Lest readers get too much of the wrong idea, Defoe follows this up with a preface in which we are told that the Penitent part of the story is uplifting, that the Whore-Thief part is instructional, that the author was "hard put to wrap it up so clean," and that if some find the tale over-stimulating they should not blame the author for the bent of their own "gust and palate ... FULL STORY »
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