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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. Embarking on a career as a courtesan and kept woman, the glamour of her new existence soon becomes too enticing and Roxana passes from man to man in order to maintain her lavish society parties, luxurious clothes and amassed wealth. But this life comes at a cost, and she is fatally torn between the sinful prosperity she has become used to and the respectability she craves. A vivid satire on a dissolute society, "Roxana" (1724) is a devastating and psychologically acute evocation of the ways in which vanity and ambition can corrupt the human soul.

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Book category Books in English Literature & literary studies Literature: history & criticism Literary studies: general

• Full title: Roxana
• Author: Daniel Defoe
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 416
• EAN: 9780140431490
• ISBN: 0140431497
• ID: 02408483
• Publisher: Penguin Books
• Weight: 292 g
• Dimensions: 195 × 130 × 20 mm
• Date of publishing: 29. April 1982

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