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040 _aAM-YeSLU
041 _aeng
100 _aDefoe, Daniel,
_d1660-1731.
245 1 4 _aThe fortunes and misfortunes of the famous Moll Flanders, &c. /
_cDaniel Defoe ; with an Afterword by Kenneth Rexroth.
260 _aNew York :
_bNew American Library,
_c1964.
300 _a317 p. ;
_c18 cm.
440 _a(Signet classics ;
_v125)
500 _aThe fortunes and misfortunes of the famous Moll Flanders, &c. : who was born in Newgate, and during a life of continu'd variety for threescore years, besides her childhood, was twelve year a whore, five times 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, written from her own memorandums.
500 _aMoll Flanders has been made into several stage and film versions. It is the story of a girl born to a convicted criminal, who advances herself through a life of multiple marriages, crime, and prostitution, though she ultimately, at age 69, repents of her wicked ways.
650 1 4 _aCriminals
_xDrama
_zEngland
650 1 4 _aChildren of prisoners
_xFiction
650 1 4 _aWomen
_xFiction
_zEngland
650 1 4 _aProstitutes
650 1 4 _aRepentance
_xFiction
700 1 _4aui
_aRexroth, Kenneth
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_cBK
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