Roxana

Description:

"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. Its narrator tells the story of her own "wicked" life as the mistress of rich and powerful men.

subjects: Fiction,  History,  Women,  Mistresses,  English Picaresque literature,  English Historical fiction,  Fiction, historical,  Great britain, fiction,  England, fiction,  British and irish fiction (fictional works by one author),  Fiction, action & adventure,  Fiction, historical, general,  Europe, fiction,  Social conditions,  Psychology,  Long Now Manual for Civilization

Places: Europe,  Great Britain,  Women

Times: Charles II, 1660-1685,  17th century