基本信息出版社：Penguin Classics
页码：416 页
出版日期：1982年06月
ISBN：0140431497
条形码：9780140431490
装帧：平装
正文语种：英语
丛书名：Penguin Classics
外文书名：罗克萨娜

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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. The novel's drama lies not in the heroine's `vast variety of fortunes', but in her attempts to understand the sometimes bitter lessons of her life as a `Fortunate Mistress'. Defoe's achievement was to invent, in `Roxana',
a gripping story-teller as well as a gripping story.

This new edition features a new introduction, detailed notes, textual history, and map of contemporary London. --This text refers to the Paperback edition.
作者简介 John Mullan is Lecturer in English at University College, London. --This text refers to the Paperback edition.