MOLL FLANDERS

In his story of a woman born and bred in the murky stews of seventeenth-century London,Defoe created an immortal heroine and one of the sharpest portraits ever of how a society worked-from a woman's point of view. Abandoned at six months old,Moll has no option but to use her considerable wit and looks to make her way in a world where no mercy is given to the unadaptable.As a woman her options are limited and Moll embarks on a rollicking career of incest,bigamy and crime.Five times married,a whore and a thief,her business is survival-and survive she does,both a prisoner and manipulator of her circumstances,whose timely spiritual regeneration in prison is,she tells us,‘the best part of the story’. Readers must decide for themselves.Tough,resourceful,indisputably feminine,moll's voice speaks to us across the centuries with shocking familiarity. 作者简介： DANIEL DEFOE(1660-1731).Working as a merchant,economist,journalist and spy before writing his first novel at the age of sixty,Daniel Defoe is thought by many to be the first true novelist in the English language. Moll Flanders first appeared in 1722.Its lengthy title page highlighted the scandalous and amoral life of Moll,Defoe's most notorious heroine,claiming it to be written in the form of her memoirs.