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Roxana : the fortunate mistress : or, a history of the life and vast variety of fortunes of Mademoiselle de Beleau, afterwards called the Countess de Wintselsheim in Germany : being the person known by the name of the Lady Roxana in the time of Charles II / Daniel Defoe.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Defoe, Daniel, 1661?-1731, author.
- Series:
- Oxford world's classics
- Standardized Title:
- Fortunate mistress
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Mistresses--Europe--Social conditions--18th century--Fiction.
- Mistresses.
- Social conditions.
- Europe.
- Genre:
- Picaresque fiction.
- Fiction.
- Novels.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xxxv, 356 pages) : illustrations, map.
- Edition:
- [New edition] / edited with an introduction and notes by John Mullan.
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2020.
- System Details:
- text file
- Summary:
- 'Roxana', Defoe's last and darkest novel, is the autobiography of a woman who has traded her virtue, at first for survival, and then for fame and fortune. The novel's drama lies in the heroine's attempts to understand the sometimes bitter lesson of her life.
- Notes:
- This edition previously issued in print: 1996.
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Description based on print version record and publisher information.
- Other Format:
- Print version :
- ISBN:
- 9780191920776
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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