Roxana
The Fortunate Mistress
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Publisher Description
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. The novel's drama lies not 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 new edition features a new introduction, detailed notes, textual history, and map of contemporary London.
GENRE
Fiction & Literature
RELEASED
2008
July 10
LANGUAGE
EN
English
LENGTH
400
Pages
PUBLISHER
OUP Oxford
SELLER
The Chancellor, Masters and Scholars of the University of Oxford trading as Oxford University Press
SIZE
2.8
MB
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