Roxana: The Fortunate Mistress. This item is unavailable.
Language: English
Published by Signet Classics (edition ), 1979
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- Title
- Roxana: The Fortunate Mistress
- Author
- Defoe, Daniel
- Publisher
- Signet Classics (edition )
- Publication year
- 1979
- Condition
- Fair
- Binding
- Mass Market Paperback
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0451511905
- ISBN 13
- 9780451511904
The only one of Defoe's novels that does not end with the triumph of its protagonist, Roxana is nevertheless a triumphant work of art. It is of enormous historical and social interest, highlighting as it does the complex relationship that existed in Defoe's time between public respectability and private corruption.
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From the Back Cover
Almost three hundred years after its first publication, Roxana continues to challenge readers, who, though compelled by Roxana’s story, are often baffled by her complex relationships to her children, her fortune, and her vices. As one of Daniel Defoe’s four major fictions, Roxana has long been understood as central to the history of the novel, and provides readers with Defoe’s sharpest and most specific commentary on the complexities of life in seventeenth-century London. This edition offers a range of contemporary documents that will help readers understand the struggles of Roxana’s life as series of metaphoric engagements with pressing issues of her time.
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