These are the true confessions of a remarkable and passionate young woman are thought to have been based on the adventures of a real prisoner in Newgate where Moll was born. ostensibly written as a warning to wrongdoers, the moral of Defoe's candid and cautionary tale is often lost in the sheer vitality of Moll - one of the supreme characters of English comic fiction. Her fortunes and misfortunes - 'twelve years a Whore, five times a Wife (once to her own brother), twelve years a Thief, eight years a transported Felon' - plunge the reader into the exciting world of the eighteenth-century low life.
Adaptations (2)
Moll Flanders has been adapted 2 times, across film and television series, from 1977 to 1996. The most recent is The Fortunes and Misfortunes of Moll Flanders (1996).
Molly1977 · film · 96 min · dir. Mac Ahlberg · IMDb ↗IMDb5.5Molly is in love with Peter. Peter is living a dangerous, violent and depraved upper class life. Peters brother Robin is in love with Molly.
The Fortunes and Misfortunes of Moll Flanders1996 · television series · 195 min · dir. David Attwood · IMDb ↗IMDb7.7After being born in prison, Moll Flanders wends her way through the top and bottom of 18th-century English society, has five husbands and many male and female lovers, travels to America and back again, and in general discovers all that is cruel and sweet in life.
