Moll Flanders
First published in 1722, Daniel Defoe’s novel offers the supposed confessions of a woman born in Newgate prison to a convict mother. Left to make her own way, Moll passes through a string of marriages, seductions, and betrayals, then reinvents herself as a resourceful thief before landing back in the same prison where her life began. She tells her story in a frank, unsentimental voice that refuses easy moral judgment and treats each of her choices as the reasonable act of a woman with no safety net beneath her. Bawdy, shrewd, and surprisingly modern, it stands among the earliest English novels and an early portrait of a self-made survivor. Free PDF and EPUB editions are available.
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| # | Chapter | Length | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Preface | 15:06 | |
| 2 | My true name is so well known... | 28:32 | |
| 3 | Thus far I have had a smooth story to tell... | 23:15 | |
| 4 | But things did not end here... | 31:22 | |
| 5 | I was reduced very low indeed... | 41:14 | |
| 6 | I loved the company indeed of men of mirth... | 40:06 | |
| 7 | But I come now to my own case... | 30:03 | |
| 8 | I was now the most unhappy of all women... | 42:17 | |
| 9 | When I parted with my brother... | 25:18 | |
| 10 | We lived thus near two years... | 29:29 | |
| 11 | I was now a single person again... | 27:38 | |
| 12 | I came the next evening... | 34:25 | |
| 13 | He rose before me in the morning... | 45:39 | |
| 14 | While I was here, and before I was brought to bed... | 40:52 | |
| 15 | The first sensible reflect I made... | 54:10 | |
| 16 | My comrade, having the brand of an old offender... | 36:53 | |
| 17 | With all these fine compliments we parted... | 38:18 | |
| 18 | I had dressed myself up in a very mean habit... | 29:13 | |
| 19 | It was not long after the affair with the mercer... | 28:35 | |
| 20 | I was now returned to London... | 35:43 | |
| 21 | In the meantime my poor distressed governess... | 43:26 | |
| 22 | I must return to my own case... | 40:40 | |
| 23 | Here was a perplexity... | 49:51 |
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