Roxana: The Fortunate Mistress

By Defoe, Daniel

Book Id: WPLBN0002950250
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File Size: 472.89 MB
Reproduction Date: 2011

Title:	Roxana: The Fortunate Mistress
Author:	Defoe, Daniel
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Language:	English
Subject:	Fiction, Fiction
Collections:	Audio Books Collection, Roxana: The Fortunate Mistress
Historic Publication Date:	1731
Publisher:	LibriVox Audio Books


Citation APA MLA Chicago Defoe, B. D. (1731). Roxana: The Fortunate Mistress. Retrieved from http://www.self.gutenberg.org/

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The full title of the novel is Roxana: The Fortunate Mistress Or, a History of the Life and Vast Variety of Fortunes of Mademoiselle de Beleau, Afterwards Called the Countess de Wintselsheim . The novel concerns the story of an unnamed fallen woman, the second time Defoe created such a character (the first was a similar female character in Moll Flanders). In Roxana, a woman who takes on various pseudonyms, including Roxana, describes her fall from wealth thanks to abandonment by a fool of a husband and movement into prostitution upon his abandonment. Roxana moves up and down through the social spectrum several times.

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