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Roxana: The Fortunate Mistress
Daniel Defoe
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Description for Roxana: The Fortunate Mistress
Paperback. Editor(s): Mullan, John. Series: Oxford World's Classics. Num Pages: 400 pages, 2 halftones, 1 map. BIC Classification: FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 133 x 21. Weight in Grams: 280.
Roxana (1724), Defoe's last and darkest novel, is the autobiography of a woman who has traded her virtue, at first for survival, and then for fame and fortune. Its narrator tells the story of her own `wicked' life as the mistress of rich and powerful men. A resourceful adventuress, she is also an unforgiving analyst of her own susceptibilities, who tells us of the price she pays for her successes. Endowed with many seductive skills, she is herself seduced: by money, by dreams of rank, and by the illusion that she can escape her own past. Unlike Defoe's other penitent ... Read more
Roxana (1724), Defoe's last and darkest novel, is the autobiography of a woman who has traded her virtue, at first for survival, and then for fame and fortune. Its narrator tells the story of her own `wicked' life as the mistress of rich and powerful men. A resourceful adventuress, she is also an unforgiving analyst of her own susceptibilities, who tells us of the price she pays for her successes. Endowed with many seductive skills, she is herself seduced: by money, by dreams of rank, and by the illusion that she can escape her own past. Unlike Defoe's other penitent ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Oxford University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
400
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Series
Oxford World's Classics
Condition
New
Number of Pages
400
Place of Publication
Oxford, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780199536740
SKU
V9780199536740
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About Daniel Defoe
John Mullan is Lecturer in English at University College, London.
Reviews for Roxana: The Fortunate Mistress
Roxana is possible Defoe's most fascinating story-teller and this, one of his most intriguing stories.
The Daily Telegraph
The Daily Telegraph