Name: Moll Flanders (en Inglés)
SKU: 61534850
Price: 32.29 USD
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Author: Daniel Defoe
ISBN: 9781544088372

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Libro Físico

Autor

Daniel Defoe

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Createspace

Idioma

Inglés

N° páginas

294

Encuadernación

Tapa Blanda

Dimensiones

22.9x15.2x1.6 cm

Peso

0.39 kg.

ISBN13

9781544088372

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Ficción: general y literaria

Moll Flanders (en Inglés)

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The world is so taken up of late with novels and romances, that it will be hard for a private history to be taken for genuine, where the names and other circumstances of the person are concealed, and on this account we must be content to leave the reader to pass his own opinion upon the ensuing sheet, and take it just as he pleases. The author is here supposed to be writing her own history, and in the very beginning of her account she gives the reasons why she thinks fit to conceal her true name, after which there is no occasion to say any more about that. It is true that the original of this story is put into new words, and the style of the famous lady we here speak of is a little altered; particularly she is made to tell her own tale in modester words that she told it at first, the copy which came first to hand having been written in language more like one still in Newgate than one grown penitent and humble, as she afterwards pretends to be. The pen employed in finishing her story, and making it what you now see it to be, has had no little difficulty to put it into a dress fit to be seen, and to make it speak language fit to be read. When a woman debauched from her youth, nay, even being the offspring of debauchery and vice, comes to give an account of all her vicious practices, and even to descend to the particular occasions and circumstances by which she ran through in threescore years, an author must be hard put to it wrap it up so clean as not to give room, especially for vicious readers, to turn it to his disadvantage. All possible care, however, has been taken to give no lewd ideas, no immodest turns in the new dressing up of this story; no, not to the worst parts of her expressions. To this purpose some of the vicious part of her life, which could not be modestly told, is quite left out, and several other parts are very much shortened. What is left 'tis hoped will not offend the chastest reader or the modest hearer; and as the best use is made even of the worst story, the moral 'tis hoped will keep the reader serious, even where the story might incline him to be otherwise. To give the history of a wicked life repented of, necessarily requires that the wicked part should be make as wicked as the real history of it will bear, to illustrate and give a beauty to the penitent part, which is certainly the best and brightest, if related with equal spirit and life. It is suggested there cannot be the same life, the same brightness and beauty, in relating the penitent part as is in the criminal part. If there is any truth in that suggestion, I must be allowed to say 'tis because there is not the same taste and relish in the reading, and indeed it is to true that the difference lies not in the real worth of the subject so much as in the gust and palate of the reader.

Daniel Defoe

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Escritor y periodista inglés, Daniel Defoe es conocido principalmente por su novela Robinson Crusoe (1719), aunque también destacó por su papel en el desarrollo de la prensa y por sus ensayos políticos y sociales.

Defoe abandonó sus estudios para convertirse en un discreto hombre de negocios, cuyas actividades no acabaron de resultar rentables, recibiendo incluso pena de prisión por sus deudas.

Es a partir de 1695, tras varios años de exilio por su ideología política, que comienza un nuevo negocio dedicado a tejas y a ladrillos que comienza a funcionar proporcionándole a su familia —estaba casado y tenía seis hijos— una mayor estabilidad económica.

Sin embargo, su activismo político le lleva a publicar varios ensayos o panfletos que le cuestan días de reclusión y de picota. Tras volver a la cárcel, Defoe pasa a trabajar desde una revista apoyando a facciones políticas del gobierno, participando en los servicios secretos ingleses.

En 1719 publica su gran novela, Robinson Crusoe, que le permite lanzarse a una carrera literaria jalonada de éxitos como Las aventuras del capitán Singleton, Diario del año de la peste o Moll Flanders. Su popularidad creció y su influencia en posteriores generaciones de escritores al potenciar el género novelístico es notable.

Pese a todo su éxito y sus relaciones con el gobierno, Defoe nunca logró una solvencia económica estable durante mucho tiempo. Su muerte en 1731 se dio mientras huía de nuevos acreedores.

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