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Moll Flanders.(Brief Article)(Audiobook Review)

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From: Kliatt
Date: 20040501
Author:Cooperman, Bernard

MOLL FLANDERS. Daniel Defoe. 1722/ 1995. Read by Janet Suzman. 10 tapes. 13 hrs. Chivers, Audio Partners. 1-57270-340-7 $39.95. Cardboard, plastic; plot, author, reader notes. SA

Defoe's Moll Flanders is an unforgettable character, far more complex and entrancing in print than in any of the recent movie and made-for-TV versions. Scholars believe she was created out of real characters--the women whom Defoe met and interviewed in London's Old Bailey. Moll is a whore and a thief, a self-indulgent and immoral con artist. She is also a victim and a critic of hypocritical social ...

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