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From her birth in Newgate Prison, where her mother is under sentence of death for theft, to her final position of wealth, Moll Flanders demonstrates a spirit of industry and an indomitable will. One of the earliest social novels of English life, Moll Flanders features one of the most lively, convincing, and delightful rogues in history.
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"[One of the] few English novels which we can call indisputably great."
Virginia Woolf
"Defoe's excellence is to make me forget my specific class, character, and circumstances, and to raise me while I read him into the universal man."
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
"Defoe's characters…[seem] as real as if we saw them in a mirror that was so clear it was invisible."
Kenneth Rexroth