The cautionary memoirs of an outrageous female rogue Abandoned at birth and threatened with a life in service, Defoes young rebel sets her heart on independence. One fatal seduction and five husbands later she resorts to a life of self-supporting crime. On her downward path from the relative respectability of Londons underworld, Newgate Prison and eventual deportation, the indestructible Moll Flanders gives her frank opinion of temptation, flattery, fortune-hunters and innocence corrupted in the world of men. The most comprehensive paperback edition available, with introduction, notes, text summary, selected criticism, and chronology of Defoes life and times
