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An un-named baby girl is born in France but is relocated to England with her parents when they flee, because they are being persecuted for their religious beliefs. Although she is not given a name, and is referred to as "the woman", we discover later in the novel that her name... Read Full Overview

'I liv'd indeed like a Queen; or if you will have me confess, that my Condition had still the Reproach of a Whore, I may say, I was sure, the Queen of Whores.'

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 powerful men. Endowed with many seductive... Read Full Overview

Roxana (1724), Defoe's last and darkest novel, is the 'autobiography' of a courtesan who has traded her virtue, at first for survival, and later for fame and fortune. Its narrator tells the story of her own 'wicked' life as the mistress of rich and powerful men. A resourceful... Read Full Overview

Beautiful, proud Roxana is terrified of being poor. When her foolish husband leaves her penniless with five children, she must choose between being a virtuous beggar or a rich whore. Embarking on a career as a courtesan and kept woman, the glamour of her new existence soon becomes... Read Full Overview

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 powerful men. Endowed with many seductive... Read Full Overview

Roxana: The Fortunate Mistress (full title: The Fortunate Mistress: Or, A History of the Life and Vast Variety of Fortunes of Mademoiselle de Beleau, Afterwards Called the Countess de Wintselsheim, in Germany, Being the Person known by the Name of the Lady Roxana, in the Time... Read Full Overview

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A vivid satire on a dissolute society, Roxana is a devastating evocation of the ways in which vanity and ambition can corrupt the human soul.

Beautiful, proud Roxana is terrified of being poor. When her foolish husband leaves her penniless... Read Full Overview

L'histoire de cette belle dame porte avec elle son propre t moignage. Si elle n'est pas aussi belle que la dame m me est repr sent e l' tre, si elle n'est pas aussi divertissante que le lecteur le peut d sirer, ni beaucoup plus qu'il ne peut raisonnablement s'y attendre, et si... Read Full Overview

"Lady Roxana" par Daniel Defoe. Daniel Defoe etait un ecrivain anglais (1660-1731)."

Roxana est cense etre l'autobiographie de la belle mademoiselle Beleau, fille de refugies protestants, elevee en Angleterre et mariee au fils d'un brasseur. Ce bon-a-rien dilapide ses biens et abandonne sa femme, alors agee de vingt-deux ans, et ses cinq enfants. Pour survivre... Read Full Overview

"Lady Roxana", le dernier chef-d'oeuvre de Daniel Defoe, met en sc ne l'histoire immorale et mouvement e d'une belle et jeune femme qui n'h site pas user de ses charmes pour obtenir ce dont elle r ve le plus: l'ind pendence.

Roxana The Fortunate Mistress by Daniel Defoe 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... Read Full Overview