Moll Flanders (First Edition) (Norton Critical Editions)

Daniel Defoe (Edited By Albert J. Rivero)

ISBN 10: 0393978621 / ISBN 13: 9780393978629

Published by W.W. Norton & Company, Inc., New York, New York, 2003

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Norton Critical Edition books are often required or highly recommended in High School Advanced Placement courses and in College/University literature courses. Softcover book is a clean tight unmarked copy. Slight edge wear on corners of wraps.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Moll Flanders (First Edition) (Norton Critical Editions)
• Publisher: W.W. Norton & Company, Inc., New York, New York
• Publication Date: 2003
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0393978621
• ISBN 13: 9780393978629
• Binding: Soft cover
• Edition: Softcover Edition, Seventh Printing
• Condition: Almost Like New
• Dust Jacket Condition: Softcover Wraps
• Seller catalogs:
  • Literary Classics

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Synopsis

Moll Flanders is one of the best-selling novels of all time.

This Norton Critical Edition is again based on the first edition text (1722), the only text known to be Defoe’s own.  It is accompanied by detailed explanatory annotations and the editor’s essay outlining the novel’s textual history.

“Contexts” collects related documents on criminal transport, contemporary accounts of lives of crime, and colonial laws as they applied to servants, slaves, and runaways.

“Criticism” includes eleven interpretations by Juliet McMaster, Everett Zimmerman, Maximillian E. Novak, Henry Knight Miller, Ian A. Bell, Carol Kay, Paula B. Backscheider, John Rietz, Ann Louise Kibbie, John Richetti, and Ellen Pollak.

A Chronology and Selected Bibliography are also included.

About the Author

Albert J. Rivero is Louise Edna Goeden Professor of English at Marquette University. He has published widely on the literature of the British long eighteenth century. His most recent publication is Daniel Defoe in Context (coedited with George Justice). He is the editor of the Norton Critical Edition of Gulliver’s Travels and Moll Flanders.