Oroonoko and Other Writings
'I value fame almost as much as if I had been born a hero'. (Preface to The Lucky Chance).Aphra Behn (1640-89) achieved both fame and notoriety in her own time, enjoying considerable success for her plays and for her short novel Oroonoko, the story of a noble slave who loves a princess. Acclaimed by Virginia Woolf as the first English woman to earn her living by the pen, Behn's achievements as a writer are now acknowledged less equivocally than in the seventeenth century.As well as Oroonoko, this volume contains five other works of fiction ranging from comedy and high melodrama to tragedy. The Fair Jilt, Memoirs of the Court of the King of B…
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Weitere Autoren: Salzman, Paul (Hrsg.)
- ISBN: 978-0-19-164692-8
- EAN: 9780191646928
- Produktnummer: 16938693
- Verlag: Oxford University Press
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 1994
- Plattform: PDF
- Masse: 54'307 KB
Über den Autor
Paul Salzman is Senior Lecturer, La Trobe University, Australia.
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