Moll Flanders by Daniel Defoe

Moll Flanders

Daniel Defoe

454 pages first pub 1722 (editions)

fiction classics historical challenging reflective slow-paced
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Moll's mother is a convict in Newgate Prison in London who is given a reprieve by "pleading her belly," a reference to the custom of staying the executions of pregnant criminals. Her mother is eventually transported to Colonial United States, and ...

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