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Moll Flanders
- Author
- Daniel Defoe
- Narrator
- Georgina Sutton
- Publisher
- Naxos AudioBooks
- Publish Date
- 1 March 2017
- Run Time
- 12 hours 25 minutes
- Format
- Audiobook
- Genre
- Classic fiction
What to expect
Critics Review
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Georgina Sutton brings her narrative talents to the dramatic morality tale of Moll Flanders. The audiobook of this classic novel follows the rakish life of a low-born young woman as she fights to raise herself to a higher position in English society. This involves multiple marriages, the abandonment of her own children, and regular bouts of theft and prostitution. Moll is at times both scandalous and downright disheartening, but Sutton’s portrayal keeps the listener on her side throughout the entire wicked tale. Sutton’s precise blend of emotion and bluntness fits the main character perfectly. The listener is carried along with Sutton’s depiction as if hearing a Newgate prisoner tell her own licentious story.
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Details
- Author
- Daniel Defoe
- Narrator
- Georgina Sutton
- Duration
- 12 hours 25 minutes
- Release Date
- 1 March 2017
- ISBN
- 9781781980392
- Format
- Audiobook
- Publisher
- Naxos AudioBooks
- Genre
- Classic fiction
Synopsis
‘The Fortunes and Misfortunes of the Famous Moll Flanders, who was Born in Newgate, and during a Life of continue’d Variety for Three-score Years, besides her Childhood, was Twelve Year a Whore, five times a Wife (whereof once to her own Brother), Twelve Year a Thief, Eight Year a Transported Felon in Virginia at last grew Rich, liv’d Honest, and died a Penitent.’ So begins Moll Flanders, Daniel Defoe’s honest portrayal of one woman’s struggle for economic survival in an unsympathetic world. Told with uncompromising directness and an extraordinary empathy, it is, as Virginia Woolf once claimed, ‘one of the few English novels we can call indisputably great’.
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