The history and misfortunes of the famous Moll Flanders, etc.
dc.contributor | Furbank, P.N |
dc.contributor.author | Defoe, Daniel, 1661?-1731 |
dc.date.accessioned | 2018-06-14 |
dc.date.accessioned | 2019-07-04T10:30:41Z |
dc.date.available | 2019-07-04T10:30:41Z |
dc.date.created | 1721 |
dc.date.issued | 1993-06-10 |
dc.identifier | ota:3017 |
dc.identifier.citation | http://purl.ox.ac.uk/ota/3017 |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12024/3017 |
dc.description.abstract | Originally published in 1721. |
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dc.language | English |
dc.language.iso | eng |
dc.publisher | University of Oxford |
dc.relation.ispartof | Oxford Text Archive Core Collection |
dc.relation.replaces | http://purl.ox.ac.uk/ota/1829 |
dc.rights | Distributed by the University of Oxford under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License |
dc.rights.uri | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/ |
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dc.subject.lcsh | Fiction -- England -- 18th century |
dc.subject.lcsh | Picaresque fiction -- England -- 18th century |
dc.title | The history and misfortunes of the famous Moll Flanders, etc. |
dc.type | Text |
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branding | Oxford Text Archive |
files.size | 3816058 |
files.count | 5 |
otaterms.date.range | 1700-1799 |
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THE HISTORY AND MISFORTUNES Of THE FAMOUS Moll Flanders, &C.
by
DANIEL DEFOE
RIVERSIDE EDITION FOR PAGENUMBERS
MY True Name is so well known in the Records, or Registers at
NEWGATE,
AND IN THE
OLD-BAILY,
and there are some things of such Consequence still depending there, relating to my particular Conduct, that it is not to be expected I should set my Name, or the Account of my Family to this Work; perhaps, after my Death it may be better known, at present it would not be proper, no, not tho' a general Pardon should be issued, even without Exceptions and reserve of Persons or Crimes.
IT is enough to tell you, that as some of my worst Comrades, who are out of the Way of doing me Harm, having gone out of the World by the Steps and the String, as I often expected to go, knew me by the Name of
MOLL FLANDERS;
so you may give me leave to speak of myself, under that Name till I dare own who I have been, as well as who I am.
I HAVE been told, that in one of our Neighbour Nations, whether it be . . .

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