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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. A vivid satire on a dissolute society, this book presents a psychologically acute evocation of the ways in which vanity and ambition can corrupt the human soul.Read More

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  • ASDA

    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. A vivid satire on a dissolute society this book presents a psychologically acute evocation of the ways in which vanity and ambition can corrupt the human soul.

  • Penguin

    The decline and defeat of a woman fatally tempted by the sinful glamour of immorality. Roxana (1724) was Defoe's last novel. It is a fascinating work, simultaneously strange and tragic, which dramatizes the moral deterioration and degradation of its complex heroine.

  • Pickabook

    Daniel Defoe, David Blewett (Editor)

  • 0140431497
  • 9780140431490
  • DEFOE
  • 20 June 2003
  • Longman
  • Paperback (Book)
  • 416
  • 1
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