About this title: Aphra Behn (1640-1689), the first Englishwoman to earn a living with her pen, wrote OROONOKO--a combination of memoir, narrative, and biography--to tell the story of a black man who begins life as a prince and ends it as a slave. THE ROVER was Behn's most popular play, produced in 1677 and 1681.
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Penguin Classics
Date Published: 1999
ISBN-13:9780140433388ISBN:0140433384
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Publisher: Penguin Group USA
Date Published: 1993-01-01
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Description: BRAND NEW PAPERBACK. 400 pages. (400 pages) 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. notes (Paperback) read more
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Publisher: Penguin Classics
Date Published: 1999-08-11
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Publisher: Penguin Classics
Date Published: 1999-08-11
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Publisher: Penguin Classics
Date Published: 1999
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Penguin Classics
Date Published: 1999
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"Virginia Woolf said it best: "All women together ought to let flowers fall upon the tomb of Aphra Behn, for it was she who earned them the right to speak their minds."
I read this book in college and truly enjoyed it. Aphra Behn is a writer all women should read. I enjoyed The Rover, and Oroonoko (or, the Royal Slave), a story detailing the journey of a slave from the West Indies. Aphra Behn's work is witty and insightful; it pushes the boundaries (there are definitely some non-PC parts); and it is thoroughly enjoyable."
"Of this book, I've only read the novella "Oroonoko", at least for now, for my "Addressing the Past" lectures. It was mentioned on my "Introduction to the Novel" course as one of the first real English novels, so I was pretty interested to try reading it anyway. I'd never heard of Aphra Behn before, but I was intrigued to find out that so early a novelist was a woman.
The story of Oroonoko is quite interesting in itself, but given what course I'm reading it for, I find it interesting to wonder how much of it might be based on fact. It's surprisingly easy to read, for so early a text, and not all that long. Worth a read, if you're interested in early fiction and colonial fiction."
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