Oroonoko

Name: Oroonoko
Brand: Penguin Books Ltd
SKU: 9780140439885
Price: 1800 KES
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ISBN: 9780140439885

by Aphra Behn

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Format Paperback / softback

ISBN-10 0140439889

ISBN-13 9780140439885

Publisher Penguin Books Ltd

Imprint Penguin Classics

Country of Manufacture GB

Country of Publication GB

Publication Date Oct 30th, 2003

Print length 144 Pages

Weight 112 grams

Dimensions 19.70 x 12.20 x 1.00 cms

Product Classification: Classic fiction: literary and general Classic fiction (pre c 1945)

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Aphra Behn, the poet, playwright, novelist and political satirist was the first truly professional woman writer in English. This title demonstrates the sophistication and vitality of Aphra Behn's genius. It contains the plays "The Rover" and "The Widow", "Ranter" together with "Love Letters to a Gentleman", a choice of poems.

A new single-volume edition of an early anti-slavery novel

When Prince Oroonoko’s passion for the virtuous Imoinda arouses the jealousy of his grandfather, the lovers are cast into slavery and transported from Africa to the colony of Surinam. Oroonoko’s noble bearing soon wins the respect of his English captors, but his struggle for freedom brings about his destruction. Inspired by Aphra Behn’s visit to Surinam, Oroonoko reflects the author’s romantic views of native peoples as being in “the first state of innocence, before man knew how to sin.” The novel also reveals Behn’s ambiguous attitude toward slavery: while she favored it as a means to strengthen England’s power, her powerful and moving work conveys its injustice and brutality.

This new single-volume edition of Oroonoko includes a carefully modernized text accompanied by an introduction, chronology, explanatory notes and suggestions for further reading.

For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.

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