The Fortunate Mistress (Parts 1 and 2) by Daniel Defoe
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"The Fortunate Mistress (Parts 1 and 2)" by Daniel Defoe is a novel published in 1724. When Roxana's reckless husband abandons her penniless with five children, she faces an impossible choice between virtue and survival. Through cunning and compromise, she ascends from desperate poverty to extraordinary wealth, becoming mistress to increasingly powerful men across Europe. But as fortunes rise through morally ambiguous choices, the past refuses to stay buried, threatening the carefully
constructed life she has built through scandal and secrecy. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
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| Author | Defoe, Daniel, 1661?-1731 |
|---|---|
| Title |
The Fortunate Mistress (Parts 1 and 2) or a History of the Life of Mademoiselle de Beleau Known by the Name of the Lady Roxana |
| Note | Wikipedia page about this book: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roxana:_The_Fortunate_Mistress |
| Credits |
Produced by Meredith Bach, Jane Hyland, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net. (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/Canadian Libraries.) |
| Reading Level | Reading ease score: 54.0 (10th to 12th grade). Somewhat difficult to read. |
| Language | English |
| LoC Class | PR: Language and Literatures: English literature |
| Subject | Historical fiction |
| Subject | Picaresque literature |
| Subject | Mistresses -- Fiction |
| Subject | Adventure stories |
| Subject | Great Britain -- History -- Charles II, 1660-1685 -- Fiction |
| Subject | Women -- Great Britain -- Fiction |
| Subject | Women -- Europe -- Fiction |
| Subject | Europe -- History -- 17th century -- Fiction |
| Category | Text |
| eBook-No. | 30344 |
| Release Date | Oct 27, 2009 |
| Last Update | Oct 24, 2024 |
| Copyright | Public domain in the USA. |
| Downloads | 1078 downloads in the last 30 days. |
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