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dec 17, 1721 - "Moll Flanders" by Daniel Defoe

Description:

- flirts with the narrative as some kind of makeover ie. in the preface it is suggested that there is an editor who has cut down the story for appropriate reading
- implication that what we are reading is not complete and is seen through a lens

- a typically picaresque narrrative (apart from the fact that she is a female rogue)

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Date:

dec 17, 1721
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~ 304 years ago