Moll Flanders (Defoe) - Book Reviews

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Defoe’s excellence it is, to make me forget my specific class, character, and circumstances, and to raise me while I read him, into the universal man.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834)


Moll Flanders… [is] a novel in which character is everything and is given the freest play.
E.M. Forster (1879-1970)


On any monument worthy of the name of monument the names of Moll Flanders and Roxana, at least, should be carved as deeply as the name of Defoe. They stand among the few English novels which we can call indisputably great.
Virginia Woolf (1882-1941)