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Review: Moll Flanders
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beth — Mon, Apr 16 2007
We had book club yesterday. I literally finished this book minutes before I had to walk out my door. Go me!
As Delia pointed out, part of the difficulty in reading the book is the lack of chapters. When there's no stop points, for some reason it gets harder to pick the book! Weird.
Moll Flanders by Daniel Defoe is a novel told by Moll herself, recounting her exploits from childhood through her 70s. The orphaned daughter of a transported felon, Moll learns to manipulate those around her from an early age, convincing her orphanage mistress to keep her when other children are sent to work, gaining a position as a maid in a privileged household, and eventually becoming lovers with one of the sons of the house before marrying the other! Moll seems to love life while having little concern for the ethics that command others.
Before you're even a third of the way through the book, Moll has been through 3 husbands (one of whom is her brother), been to Virginia and back to England, had a handful of children, and gained a lover. And that's just the first third! After a few more husbands and lovers, she spends a good portion of her life as a pickpocket and general thief, and revels in telling the details of her exploits in the book. The last portion of the book concerns her capture, jail time, and transportation back to the colonies. And while our heroine would try to convince you she's repentant of all her bad deeds, her actions would say otherwise.
At book club, as we began talking about the book, I started to like it more and more. Discussing her exploits, her unusual-for-the-time love of men and of sex, and her crazy justifications for her conduct, I couldn't stop laughing at her audacity and the way she spun the story so that you closed the book truly liking her. She was one saucy lady.
Overall though, I'm still left puzzling -- just how many children did Moll have, and where did they all go??
I know some book club chicas wanted to ruminate more on the book, so once your thoughts have had time to marinate, make sure you post them!
As Delia pointed out, part of the difficulty in reading the book is the lack of chapters. When there's no stop points, for some reason it gets harder to pick the book! Weird.
Moll Flanders by Daniel Defoe is a novel told by Moll herself, recounting her exploits from childhood through her 70s. The orphaned daughter of a transported felon, Moll learns to manipulate those around her from an early age, convincing her orphanage mistress to keep her when other children are sent to work, gaining a position as a maid in a privileged household, and eventually becoming lovers with one of the sons of the house before marrying the other! Moll seems to love life while having little concern for the ethics that command others.
Before you're even a third of the way through the book, Moll has been through 3 husbands (one of whom is her brother), been to Virginia and back to England, had a handful of children, and gained a lover. And that's just the first third! After a few more husbands and lovers, she spends a good portion of her life as a pickpocket and general thief, and revels in telling the details of her exploits in the book. The last portion of the book concerns her capture, jail time, and transportation back to the colonies. And while our heroine would try to convince you she's repentant of all her bad deeds, her actions would say otherwise.
At book club, as we began talking about the book, I started to like it more and more. Discussing her exploits, her unusual-for-the-time love of men and of sex, and her crazy justifications for her conduct, I couldn't stop laughing at her audacity and the way she spun the story so that you closed the book truly liking her. She was one saucy lady.
Overall though, I'm still left puzzling -- just how many children did Moll have, and where did they all go??
I know some book club chicas wanted to ruminate more on the book, so once your thoughts have had time to marinate, make sure you post them!
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