Moll Flanders

Moll Flanders, born in Newgate Prison to a picaresque mother, narrates her own tumultuous life story in a quest for property and power. The novel follows her struggles through poverty and sin, detailing her many marriages, her unwitting marriage to her own half-brother, and her subsequent career as a highly successful prostitute and brilliant thief in late seventeenth- and early eighteenth-century England. Ultimately, she is arrested and sentenced to death, but after a sincere repentance, her sentence is reduced to transportation to the American colonies, where she is reunited with her 'Lancashire husband' and finally achieves wealth and respectability.

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