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  <title><![CDATA[Moll Flanders (Wordsworth Classics) ]]></title>
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      <name><![CDATA[Daniel Defoe]]></name>
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  <date_added>Mon Aug 25 13:10:28 -0700 2008</date_added>
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    <body><![CDATA[Amusing, picaresque portrait of an unsrupulous antiherione (the narrator) in 17th century England and America.  She lies, she steals, she whores - whatever it takes.  <br/><br/>I, and I suspect she, lost track of how many children she has by an assortment of fathers, but no matter.  The fact that ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/31158359">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="40336037">
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  <read_at>Sat Jan 03 00:00:00 -0800 2009</read_at>
  <date_added>Wed Dec 17 15:54:05 -0800 2008</date_added>
  <date_updated>Sun Jan 04 04:35:18 -0800 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[3 things I liked about this book:<br/>1. Moll's distinctive character and voice<br/>2. Her ability to turn almost any situation into a positive, eventually (Moll Flanders wobbles, but she never falls down!)<br/>3. How the book highlighted the difficult positions a woman could be left in during th...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/40336037">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="40079213">
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  <read_at>Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2009</read_at>
  <date_added>Sun Dec 14 10:35:28 -0800 2008</date_added>
  <date_updated>Tue Jan 06 20:36:35 -0800 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[Despite being one of the earliest English novels, and thus from a time incredibly different from our own, Daniel Defoe's &quot;Moll Flanders&quot; sucked me into its world far more readily than I expected it to. I attribute this mostly to the voice of Moll Flanders herself, who is so good natured, a...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/40079213">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="2746523">
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  <recommended_for><![CDATA[Anybody interested in the history of the novel or inspirations for James Joyce.]]></recommended_for>
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  <read_at>Sun Feb 01 00:00:00 -0800 1981</read_at>
  <date_added>Thu Jul 05 14:37:20 -0700 2007</date_added>
  <date_updated>Thu Jul 05 14:47:13 -0700 2007</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[This, of course, was called an actual memoir when it was published. Today's novelists should take note: The first novels definitely were meant to deceive the public into thinking they were true stories. <br/>The Norton Critical Edition I read in college was one soild paragraph. This means Defoe did...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2746523">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="6107054">
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  <date_added>Wed Sep 12 12:43:05 -0700 2007</date_added>
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    <body><![CDATA[Ever wondered what the significance of Ned Flander's wife's name on the Simpons?<br/><em>Moll Flanders</em> is about a woman that not only fell on hard times, but is a strong, self asserted woman that uses any possible wiles to survive in a time when women were still nothing more than trinkets.  She goes fr...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/6107054">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="3612668">
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      <rating>5</rating>
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  <read_at>Sat Jul 01 00:00:00 -0700 2006</read_at>
  <date_added>Thu Jul 26 17:42:53 -0700 2007</date_added>
  <date_updated>Thu Jul 26 17:44:28 -0700 2007</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[Last year I described this book as being like a big gushy Cinnabon, sweet, sticky, and cloying. I love it to bits, but it does make me feel like I need to wash, or something. ]]></body>
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    <review id="71191690">
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  <read_at>Fri Sep 18 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
  <date_added>Mon Sep 14 11:34:28 -0700 2009</date_added>
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    <body><![CDATA[One of my latest revelations regarding books is that I somehow need to pay my respects to the 17th century classics. That is, read some of the novels I should have read years ago, books most people read as teenagers or at least in college, where they (some of them) are mandatory. Having waltzed very...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/71191690">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="43922464">
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    <body><![CDATA[Moll Flanders first and formost challenges ones conception of right and wrong.  Do the ends (survival) justify the means (whatever deception or crime it takes to secure it). In the past, I have always been one to argue, emphatically, that no, there is no such thing as situational ethics. Yet, as I r...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/43922464">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="26542920">
    <user id="94602">
    <name><![CDATA[Kelly]]></name>
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  <read_at>Fri Aug 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008</read_at>
  <date_added>Mon Jul 07 10:48:12 -0700 2008</date_added>
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    <body><![CDATA[Largely confusing, frenetic action interspersed with long, prosy, preachy morality lessons, and then plunged right back into constant action again. Defoe's storytelling appears almost entirely random, especially towards the end, picking out one tale to tell of her wicked ways and days, and suppressi...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/26542920">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="39536392">
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  <read_at>Sat Dec 06 00:00:00 -0800 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[If Robinson Crusue can be Betteridge's handbook for life (The Moonstone), I think Moll Flanders may become mine.  I can't see DeFoe as a reliable woman's voice, but he brings a curiously apt man's perspective to how women should view -- and treat -- men, which in itself is worth the price of the boo...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/39536392">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="1712650">
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    <body><![CDATA[i am struggling to finish this book. it will be one of those that i muscle through till the end simply because i am stubborn and like to finish things (like books). i expected it to be like Robinson Crusoe, which had a crude beginning but really picked up and developed the plot and character(s). Thi...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1712650">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="44725486">
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    <name><![CDATA[Heather]]></name>
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  <read_at>Sun Feb 22 00:00:00 -0800 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[I'm thinking this book is a classic because it might have been the first to confess with near honesty the life of a whore and a thief. I have to say, you can tell it was written by a man because he just tacks on the children as each marriage/relationship comes to an end. Children are a bit more trou...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/44725486">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="7542462">
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    <name><![CDATA[Karl]]></name>
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    <body><![CDATA[Better than John Bunyan's <em>Grace abounding to the Chief of Sinners;</em> more detailed a portrait than the Wife of Bath, who also, remember, had 5 wives (EDIT: by which of course I mean five HUSBANDS); hell, it's probably the best book of its kind. But how in god's name am I going to teach it?<br/><br/>...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/7542462">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="66236724">
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    <name><![CDATA[karen]]></name>
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  <date_added>Tue Aug 04 19:27:42 -0700 2009</date_added>
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    <body><![CDATA[the person who was reading this used, 49 cent, copy of moll flanders before me stopped reading at page 26, judging by the abrupt cessation of circled words like &quot;prattle&quot;, &quot;would you were, sir&quot;, &quot;brother fell&quot;, and &quot;he would&quot; i like to think about this person,...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/66236724">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="56368185">
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    <name><![CDATA[Goggly]]></name>
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  <read_at>Tue May 19 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[First of all, if you are interested in the history of the novel and just reading what could be regarded as one of the first novels ever, or you are just really into female plucky protagonists, you can probably ignore this review!<br/><br/>Plotwise, the book's fine. It's actually a little grosser t...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/56368185">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="61267531">
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  <read_at>Fri Jun 19 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[The story of Moll Flanders is definitely not as pornographic or unmoralizing as one would think from its description, though if you do think of the time its set in, even the smallest thought of what Moll Flanders tells in the book would be sinning. But for us, its not so bad, but it still gets to yo...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/61267531">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="61468083">
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    <body><![CDATA[While the lack of chapter breaks still caused some difficulty (as in Robinson Crusoe) I found this narrative easier to follow.  I found Moll to be a very sympathetic character, not nearly as wicked as she (and the society in which she lived) made her out to be.  From the time she was born, the deck ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/61468083">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I really liked it. It’d been a while since I’d read a classic, and the reading was breezy and interesting, with enough conflict to keep it lively, but not so much as to stress me out. <br/><br/>One of the main problems I had with it was the fact that it was a man writing a woman’s autobiogra...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/76632081">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[So I know this is a classic, but I've got to dispute Virginia Woolf's claim that <em>Moll Flanders</em> is &quot;among the few English novels which we can call indisputably great.&quot;  What an absurd statement.  No Dickens or Thomas Hardy novel can be called indisputably great?  Okay Ms. Woolf.<br/><br/>...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/47820864">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[ I read this book for another class many years ago when I was an undergrad. I really didn't remember anything of it. And now I remember why. I found it to be a rather boring and repetitive book. I didn't care about Moll at all and would have been happier if she had hanged in the end. But apparently ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/38555884">more...</a>]]></body>
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