Download or read book The History of Mademoiselle de Beleau Or the New Roxana written by Daniel Defoe and published by . This book was released on 1775 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Roxana the Fortunate Mistress Or A History of the Life and Vast Variety of Fortunes of Mademoiselle de Beleau written by Daniel Defoe and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1998 with total page 406 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is intended for students of English Literature, especially eighteenth-century, from sixth-form up.
Download or read book The Fortunate Mistress Roxana written by Daniel Defoe and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2024-10-06 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'I liv'd indeed like a Queen; or if you will have me confess, that my Condition had still the Reproach of a Whore, I may say, I was sure, the Queen of Whores.' Left destitute by her husband, the heroine of Defoe's final novel has to choose between her virtue and her life. Choosing survival, she makes her way as a kept woman and courtesan. The Fortunate Mistress (1724), also known under the title Roxana, tells the story of how she climbs society's ladder by dint of her own enterprise, shedding and gaining multiple identities as she moves through the worlds of business and finance, and across the trade capitals of Europe. Amassing a fortune, her taste for men and luxuries veers increasingly to the aristocratic and exotic, culminating when she dances before the King at a masquerade dressed in the garb of a Turkish Sultana--at which point she is granted the name by which she is known to history, Roxana. Despite her rise, Roxana's past never recedes from view, and her choices eventally begin to weigh on her, prompting an excruciating self-reckoning that is only compounded as the children she has abandoned return, threatening to expose this past to public view. Defoe resists easy solutions in a sprawling and complex novel which shows an unprecedented degree of psychological realism: readers experience the interplay of circumstance, need, desire, religion, and social convention that can allow the development of a moral sense, or conspire to suppress it. ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features, including expert introductions by leading authorities, helpful notes to clarify the text, up-to-date bibliographies for further study, and much more.
Download or read book Roxana written by Daniel Defoe and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2008-07-10 with total page 347 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 anti-heroes, however, she fails to triumph over these weaknesses. The novel's drama lies not only in the heroine's `vast variety of fortunes', but in her attempts to understand the sometimes bitter lessons of her life as a `Fortunate Mistress'. Defoe's achievement was to invent, in `Roxana', a gripping story-teller as well as a gripping story. This edition uses the rare first edition text, with a new introduction, detailed notes, textual history, and a map. ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features, including expert introductions by leading authorities, helpful notes to clarify the text, up-to-date bibliographies for further study, and much more.
Download or read book Bibliotheca Grenvilliana written by British Museum. Department of Printed Books. Grenville Library and published by . This book was released on 1848 with total page 540 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Anonymity written by John Mullan and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2021-05-11 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Some of the greatest works in English literature were first published without their authors' names. Why did so many authors want to be anonymous--and what was it like to read their books without knowing for certain who had written them? In Anonymity, John Mullan gives a fascinating and original history of hidden identity in English literature. From the sixteenth century to today, he explores how the disguises of writers were first used and eventually penetrated, how anonymity teased readers and bamboozled critics--and how, when book reviews were also anonymous, reviewers played tricks of their own in return. Today we have forgotten that the first readers of Gulliver's Travels and Sense and Sensibility had to guess who their authors might be, and that writers like Sir Walter Scott and Charlotte Brontë went to elaborate lengths to keep secret their authorship of the best-selling books of their times. But, in fact, anonymity is everywhere in English literature. Spenser, Donne, Marvell, Defoe, Swift, Fanny Burney, Austen, Byron, Thackeray, Lewis Carroll, Tennyson, George Eliot, Sylvia Plath, and Doris Lessing--all hid their names. With great lucidity and wit, Anonymity tells the stories of these and many other writers, providing a fast-paced, entertaining, and informative tour through the history of English literature.
Download or read book The History of Mademoiselle de Beleau Or the New Roxana written by Daniel Defoe and published by . This book was released on 1775 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The First Part of a Catalogue of the Extensive Curious and Valuable Library of the Late Mr Gilbert Dyer Bookseller Exeter written by Mr. Carter and published by . This book was released on 1825 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Catalogue of English Welsh Scotch and Irish History and Topography Including Nearly the Whole of the Printed Books Relating to Saxon History and Literature to which are Added the Monastic Historians and the Old Chroniclers Followed by the Various Histories Relating to this Kingdom The Whole Forming Part III Offered at the Reduced Prices Affixed written by William Strong and published by . This book was released on 1832 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Protestant Whore written by Alison Conway and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2010-03-20 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After the restoration of the English monarchy in 1660, Protestants worried that King Charles II might favour religious freedom for Roman Catholics, and many suspected that the king was unduly influenced by his Catholic mistresses. Nell Gwyn, actress and royal mistress, stood apart by virtue of her Protestant loyalty. In 1681, Gwyn, her carriage surrounded by an angry anti-Catholic mob, famously declared 'I am the protestant whore.' Her self-branding invites an investigation into the alignment between sex and politics during this period, and in this study, Alison Conway relates courtesan narrative to cultural and religious anxieties. In new readings of canonical works by Aphra Behn, Daniel Defoe, Henry Fielding, and Samuel Richardson, Conway argues that authors engaged the same questions about identity, nation, authority, literature, and politics as those pursued by Restoration polemicists. Her study reveals the recurring connection between sexual impropriety and religious heterodoxy in Restoration thought, and Nell Gwyn, writ large as the nation's Protestant Whore, is shown to be a significant figure of sexual, political, and religious controversy.
Download or read book A Critical Bibliography of Daniel Defoe written by P N Furbank and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-10-24 with total page 229 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Daniel Defoe was one of the most prolific writers in English literature, however the canon of works attributed to him swelled from 100 to 570 titles between 1790 and the 1990s. Furbank and Owens provide a critical bibliography of Defoe's works, including evidences for ascription.
Download or read book Moll Flanders written by Daniel Defoe and published by Everyman's Library. This book was released on 1991-11-26 with total page 379 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the spirited story of a survivor whose racy anecdotes and shady dealings only underline her essential warmth and goodness. But there is nothing sentimental about Moll, who presents herself warts and all. Though her adventures take her abroad, she remains the vivid creation of London. Moll Flanders, pickpocket and prostitute–a mercantile genius trading in the oldest human commodity–has been for the past three centuries an enduring representative of reckless vitality combined with unshakable inner virtue. Daniel Defoe manages his story with such skill that our affection for his heroine increases with each astonishing sin she commits. Moll’s adventures–possibly taken by Defoe from the story of some real criminal he met in Newgate, who “five times a wife, twelve year a thief, eight year a transported felon, at last grew rich, lived honest and died a penitent”–is told with the directness of narrative and reality of incident in which Defoe, often called the father of the novel, has never been equaled. (Book Jacket Status: Not Jacketed)
Download or read book A Catalogue of an Extensive Collection of Books in Every Department of Literature and in Various Languages written by William Strong and published by . This book was released on 1825 with total page 630 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book A Catalogue of a Library the Property of an Eminent Collector to be Sold at the Sale rooms of Maclachlan Stewart on the 24th January Etc written by Maclachlan and Stewart, Medical Booksellers and published by . This book was released on 1823 with total page 50 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
