Moll Flanders

Written by Daniel Dafoe

Narrated by Georgina Sutton

The original title says it all: 'The Fortunes and Misfortunes of the Famous Moll Flanders, who was Born in Newgate, and during a Life of continue'd Variety for Three-score Years, besides her Childhood, was Twelve Year a Whore, five times a Wife (whereof once to her own Brother), Twelve Year a Thief, Eight Year a Transported Felon in Virginia at last grew Rich, liv'd Honest, and died a Penitent.' So begins Moll Flanders, Daniel Defoe’s honest portrayal of one woman’s
struggle for economic survival in an unsympathetic world. Told with
uncompromising directness and an extraordinary empathy, it is, as Virginia Woolf
once claimed, ‘one of the few English novels we can call indisputably great’.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Naxos Audiobooks
• Release date: Feb 1, 2017
• ISBN: 9781781980392

Daniel Dafoe

Daniel Defoe (1660-1731) was an English author, journalist, merchant and secret agent. His career in business was varied, with substantial success countered by enough debt to warrant his arrest. Political pamphleteering also landed Defoe in prison but, in a novelistic turn of events, an Earl helped free him on the condition that he become an intelligence agent. The author wrote widely on many topics, including politics, travel, and proper manners, but his novels, especially Robinson Crusoe, remain his best remembered work.

Reviews for Moll Flanders

[Merle Arrowsmith · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

A lively tale with countless twists and turns, and very well read! Makes me grateful as a woman to live in our present times...

[Jamie Kramer · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

Moll is an absolute baddie. A compelling read about a 17th/18th-century woman who who refuses to live within the confined expectations of her gender and class—a working woman who refuses to become a servant and instead lives a life filled with rollercoaster love affairs, numerous marriages and plenty more men, and a life of crime. Based on the life of a woman Daniel Defoe met at Newgate Prison. Never a dull moment in this book!

[Delaram Mirshamsi · Rating: 4 out of 5 stars]

The last bit of it was getting monotonous but an amusing read overall
One of my English profs suggested this book to me to see how the continuous writing style works... there are no chapters in this book, yet it's not hard to follow the storyline

[Paul Lyons · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

Written in 1683 this book is wonderfully inventive, funny in places, gripping and poignant in others. I didn't expect to enjoy it as much as I did. Defoe has captured a woman's realism in Moll's voice, enhanced by the fine rendition of this reader. Excellent.