Moll Flends. Defoe Daniel

English writer Daniel Defoe entered the history of literature as the creator of one world -famous book - “Life, the extraordinary and amazing adventures of Robinson Crusoe, a sailor from York” (1719). Meanwhile, more than 550 works belong to the pen of this prolific, who created in all kinds of genres of the author, including a number of plutian novels from the life of the lower classes of English society of his time or earlier eras. “The Joy and Sorrow of the famous Moll Flends” (1722) is the fifth novel of Defoe, containing a bitter story about the fate of the London thief and prostitutes, the main events of which are dashed on the title page of the book. Issued for genuine notes, dated 1689, the self -disclosure confession of the main character, hiding behind the pseudonym Molla Flends (“Flemish Potaskushka”), draws the story of a desperate struggle for the existence and moral fall, which almost brought the storyteller to the gallows, but ended with the acquisition of a “quiet pier »On the Virgin Plantation. The extraordinary accuracy of household sketches allowed the English historian J. M. Trevelyan, the author of the book “Social Life of England”, to call “Mall Flends” “an imaginary report on the daily life of the era”.