Moll Flanders is one of the best-selling novels of all time. ThisNorton Critical Edition is again based on the first edition text(1722), the only text known to be Defoe's
own. It is accompanied bydetailed explanatory annotations and the editor's essay outlining thenovel's textual history.
��ontexts��collects related documents on criminal transport,contemporary accounts of lives of crime, and colonial laws as theyapplied to servants, slaves, and runaways.
��riticism��includes eleven interpretations by Juliet McMaster, EverettZimmerman, Maximillian E. Novak, Henry Knight Miller, Ian A. Bell,Carol Kay, Paula B. Backscheider, John Rietz, Ann Louise
Kibbie, JohnRichetti, and Ellen Pollak.
A Chronology and Selected Bibliography are also included.
