Complete and unabridged, with 60 full-page plates by William Hogarth, Thomas Gainsborough and Thomas Rowlandson. Born in Newgate, married five times, transported to Virginia and rich at last by means she sets out with no apology, Moll tells her own life at seventy and repents in the final pages. Defoe published it anonymously as a true account edited from the woman's own papers, and it was read that way for a century. The bookkeeping is the point: every marriage, theft and passage is priced, and the moral arrives exactly when the balance is safe. Sixty plates of Georgian low life and street justice by Hogarth and Rowlandson, from the Beggar's Opera to the debtor's cell, run alongside Moll's own priced account of crime and reckoning.
The Fortunes and Misfortunes of the Famous Moll Flanders : Born in Newgate, Twelve Year a Whore and Five Times a Wife
Écrit par Daniel Defoe
