Roxana: The Fortunate Mistress by Daniel Defoe

Roxana: The Fortunate Mistress

Daniel Defoe with John Mullan (Contributor)

356 pages first pub 1724 (editions)

fiction classics adventurous challenging reflective slow-paced
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Roxana (1724), Defoe’s last and darkest novel, is the autobiography of a woman who has traded her virtue, at first for survival, and then for fame and fortune. Its narrator tells the story of her own ‘wicked’ life as the mistress of rich and power...

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