Everyman Classics: Roxana, Or The Fortunate Mistress

Everyman Classics: Roxana, Or The Fortunate Mistress by Daniel Defoe


ISBN
9780460876766
Published
Binding
Paperback
Pages
320
Dimensions
130 x 200 x 20mm

Deserted by her rakish husband, the beautiful Roxana abandons poverty, morality and her five children and embarks on a career of sexual intrigue and fraud in England, France and the Netherlands. Through her beauty and shrewdness, and abetted by her inventive confidante Amy, Roxana becomes the mistress of the great and acquires immense wealth and social status. However, as in all morality tales, when at last her success is no longer a match for her notoriety, Roxana finds herself tangled in the web of her own misdeeds.

In 'Roxana', Defoe's knowledge of eighteenth-century psychology is distilled into a brilliant early example of the romance, combining sexual desire with the struggle for wealth in a complex image of a woman who is as much an entrepreneur as courtesan.

The most comprehensive paperback edition available, with introduction, notes, selected criticism, text summary and chronology of Defoe's life and times.
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